Mrs. EVANS. As far as I could see, they were very happy, very closely knit, very much in love with each other, and these boys knew that their mother was putting them through school, and giving them what they needed, as best she could. She was a very good provider for her children, and a very decent woman. I mean, she wasn't a loose woman at all. She was very decent, a very fine woman.
Mr. JENNER. Well, that squares with everything we have found. I don't think any mother could do more than she did for them, as far as we have been able to find out.
Mrs. EVANS. That's right. Nobody could have done any more for their children than she did, I mean, with what she had to work with. She was never well off, I mean, financially. She always worked and saved and made do the best she could.
Mr. JENNER. When she moved to New York City, did you lose touch with Margie then?
Mrs. EVANS. Yes; I lost complete touch with Margie.
Mr. JENNER. Did you hear from her while she was in New York?
Mrs. EVANS. No; I don't think so. She might have written me a postal card or something, but I don't think so.
Mr. JENNER. Then the first time that you again began seeing her was when she came back to New Orleans, is that right?
Mr. JENNER. Did you hear from her or hear about her while she was living in Texas, before she went to New York?
Mrs. EVANS. Oh, yes; like I said, I was over there in Dallas with her for a week, and I kept pretty well in touch with what she was doing. For a time she lived--what's the name of that little town?
Mrs. EVANS. It could have been that. Anyway, I heard from her again, that she was traveling a lot with her husband. She was still living with Ekdahl then. They were living in hotels and traveling, and Lee was right with them all the time.
Mr. JENNER. She kept Lee with her on all these trips with Mr. Ekdahl?
Mrs. EVANS. As far as I know, she did, yes.
Mr. JENNER. As far as you know, did she have Lee with her all the time?
Mrs. EVANS. I don't think that she ever parted with Lee for a minute. If she did, I don't know about it, but when she came back, the way she talked, I figured that Lee was with them the whole time, and they had lived in hotels and things like that while Mr. Ekdahl was traveling.