A. No. Morello offered to pay the $100 himself and expected to get it back. He said: "I will pay and see that they return it to me."
Q. Who would return it?
A. Those people would return the money again to him.
Q. He said that he would pay the money and that he would get it back from the Black-Handers?
A. Yes. Then the whole thing quieted down and naturally my people thought they were under obligations to this man Morello. And then when the danger was over my folks told me about it and remarked about what a terrible thing we had escaped.
About three or four months later, Morello came around and said to my mother:
Q. Did you hear him?
A. No. She told me.
(Continuing) "I have a notion to get married. I'm in with a woman who has a baby as the result of our relations. Now that I want to get married, I want to break off this relation, and if it is not inconvenient to you I would like to bring this baby, this little girl, to your house until everything is arranged."
Q. That is the illegitimate child?