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can sympathize with people till they are hurting other people and then by God, I don't know on whose side to stand.

   I went down to the cemetery to look at Altgeld's grave yesterday.  I wanted it for the novel.  I had a Hell of a time finding it - what with the graves of the Armanis, Pullmans, Palmers etc being much more impressive.   What happened was comic.  Some guy standing there engaged me in conversation and told me he was Altgeld's butcher boy.  He then gave me his version of the Haymarket riot.  And was it Tribune rich!  He seemed to think I was an innocent that must be set right.  (I reminded him of his daughter, he said.)  There was something swell about the whole scene.  The grave was in a spot mixed up with a bunch of other graves and the stone had Altgeld's prize quotation on it.  There were three of us, at last, one guy copying off the quotations into a little notebook.   It was fun!

My best, Janice