I decided
that I could earn my bare expenses by making one
brief lecture tour each year, and I made an arrange-
ment with the Redpath Bureau which left me
fully two-thirds of my time for the suffrage work
I loved.
This was one result of my all-night talk with Miss
Anthony in Chicago, and it enabled me to carry
out her plan that I should accompany her in most
of the campaigns in which she sought to arouse the
West to the need of suffrage for women. From that
time on we traveled and lectured together so con-
stantly that each of us developed an almost uncanny
knowledge of the other's mental processes. At any
point of either's lecture the other could pick it up
and carry it on--a fortunate condition, as it some-
times became necessary to do this. Miss Anthony
was subject to contractions of the throat, which for
the moment caused a slight strangulation. On such
occasions--of which there were several--she would
turn to me and indicate her helplessness. Then I
would repeat her last sentence, complete her speech,
and afterward make my own.
The first time this happened we were in Washing-
ton, and ``Aunt Susan'' stopped in the middle of a
word. She could not speak; she merely motioned
to me to continue for her, and left the stage. At the
end of the evening a prominent Washington man
who had been in our audience remarked to me, con-
fidentially:
``That was a nice little play you and Miss An-
thony made to-night--very effective indeed.
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