Further on, sir, "I wrote you and told you about a girl loaning me $50 on my ring. I lost the ring and wasn't able to pay it." Sir, I wouldn't believe that. I am sure at that time I didn't. And the way she goes on the next page, "Cox found out about me borrowing" and let her go. I don't believe this.
Mr. Jenner. The next letter, Exhibit No. 32-B, and in an envelope marked in 1950, it says "Dear John, Well, I have the house in Benbrook up for sale." Could you read the name?
Mr. Pic. It appears to me to be J. Piner Powell Real Estate is handling it. Do you want me to read on?
Mr. Jenner. Yes.
Mr. Pic. "The problem is to find someone with enough cash as a loan company won't make a new loan and I have about $2,600 in it. Nothing but bad news. Up to date I am still not working." Read on, sir?
Mr. Jenner. That is about enough. Did your mother write you a letter that had good news in it?
Mr. Pic. I never recall one, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Around your home was the atmosphere that, "We are poor but we will get along?" as your mother sought to lead you boys to accommodate yourselves to the circumstances that everything would turn out all right eventually?
Mr. Pic. None of us really paid much attention to this, sir. I didn't, and I am sure Robert didn't. I don't think Lee did because Robert and I would probably talk and we didn't pay much attention to it.
Mr. Jenner. You heard it so often you just became inured to it, hardened to it; is that it?