Mr. JENNER. Did that acquaintance continue for some years?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, I sort of quit playing cards, and I went and took an accounting course and went back to work, and I had not seen her for a while, and she remarried--to Oswald.
Mr. JENNER. You learned of that, did you?
Mr. JENNER. Did you see her from time to time in that interim?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, I wasn't playing cards during that time or anything, but I might have run into her--I imagine I did, on the street, but I lost contact with her, sort of, and then--it was either just before Lee's birth or just after his birth; I can't remember; it has been so many years, but I met her on the corner of Canal and St. Charles. I think that was after Lee's birth. I think her husband had died, and I think she had just taken the baby to the doctor, or something. I think she told me they had wanted to have a little girl, but I can't remember all of that just the way it happened, you know. That's been such a long time ago, but I can remember meeting her; I just can't remember though if it was after her husband died, or if she was expecting a baby, or if she was the one that wanted a little girl. I can't remember if that was after the child was born. Most likely it was that she hoped they would have a little girl. Now, a lot of this was told to me after we became friends again, as to what happened.
I didn't attend her husband's funeral or anything, and I didn't start seeing a good deal of her again until--let's see; she finally went to work downtown, and I happened to run into her, or something like that. She was working for, I think, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., and I was a widow and she was a widow, and we again sort of regained our friendship.
Mr. JENNER. Your husband in the meantime had died?
Mrs. EVANS. Yes; I am married now to Mr. Evans.
Mr. JENNER. Your first husband, was he also a native-born American?
Mrs. EVANS. Oh, yes; now, I met Lee's aunt one day at a card party.
Mrs. EVANS. Yes, Lillian Murret, and I hadn't seen her in years. I am Catholic and she is Catholic, you see, and so they had this card party or some kind of an affair over at the Fontainebleau Motel, and a number of ladies were present, and it was for charity, and we played bingo and canasta and things, and she was selling aprons, and so she said, "Oh, Myrtle, did you hear about Lee; he gave up his American citizenship and went to Russia, behind the iron curtain," and I said "My God, no," and she said, "Yes."