Mr. Hubert. Nor did you see any money handed to anyone else.
Mrs. Rich. No; I did not.
Mr. Hubert. So the way it was left then, these people, the others, were going to go to Mexico——
Mrs. Rich. Actually they were going to leave not the day following, but the day after that—2 days later they were going to leave for Mexico. I just assumed that that was money that Ruby brought in. Because before that they could not go, they did not have the finances, and after he left they did.
Mr. Hubert. Did they say they did not have the finances, or was it your assumption that they did not?
Mrs. Rich. When someone is stalling around, and not setting a concrete date and saying, “Well, we have to wait” and that it will get here soon, and statements like that that I hear in conversation, then all of a sudden in comes a man with a bulge and hands it to the colonel in the back room, so to speak, and all of a sudden, boom, the reservations are made then and there, I think that is a pretty good assumption.
Mr. Hubert. In other words, those are the facts that you observed upon which you base the assumptions that you have made.
Mrs. Rich. That is correct. And the big sigh of relief, so to speak, afterwards.
Mr. Hubert. Well, did you then ask about your portion of the money?
Mrs. Rich. At that time it was to be decided, as I say, among the bigwigs. I had asked for $25,000.