Chapter 6

However, all the reading I was doing was not so respectable. On the sly I was devouring a sheet forbidden to the household—the _Police Gazette_—the property of the men around the house, for we had men around the house, men of various degrees of acceptability to my mother, but all necessary to my father’s enterprises. The business had grown; it meant a clerk, bosses, workmen. In a pioneer community like ours it was hard to find comfortable living quarters for single men. My father and mother, both brought up on farm…