i to MY AMERICAN FRIENDS

standing i co-percenter and vociferous in the
cause. I resolved that> come what might, I would
manage somehow to get an interview with that
mayor; but on arriving at the city I was informed
that he was under indictment -by a Citizen's
Committee for malfeasance in his office and was
not receiving visitors just then. On another
occasion I was told to look for what I wanted
among the Daughters of the American Revolution,
and preparations were made for introducing me
to one of them. But she had a German sounding
name, being descended, as I discovered, from a
Hessian soldier who had deserted to the American
side in the revolutionary war. . This, I thought,
threw a suspicion on her genuineness and the-
introduction never came off. I was also advised
that I should find my man among " the descen-
dants of the men who came over in the May-
flower," of whom there are an astonishing number
about New England and elsewhere; but on
trying my luck on a Boston gentleman, authen-
tically known to be descended from a Pilgrim,
and he discovering that I took him for a 100-
percenter, he became so indignant, that I feared
the loss of a valuable friendship and dropped the
subject immediately,

I was in despair of finding the elusive object
of my search when, here in Arizona, it suddenly
appeared and almost flung itself into my arms,
but not in the person of a " he-man." I will