She is dead--but very much alive at times--through the friends she left behind her.

I've been fighting them all my life, it seems--ever since I married Joe!" "Why were you fighting them ?" Ethel frowned: "Because they--well, they were all just fat--in body and soul--the women, I mean--and the men were just making money for food and things to keep them so.

Do you know what I mean--that kind of New Yorker ?" "I do," said Mrs.Crothers.

"Was that the cause of your trouble with Joe!" "Partly--yes.

You see when I tried to shake them off, they wouldn't be shaken--they hung on--because Joe was growing rich all of a sudden.