Mrs. Murret.

That's right, and so that upset him for a while, but he said very little about it. And then he met someone in this branch of the service who had taken a liking to him, and he used to go over there and converse with him about different things in the service and so forth. I don't know who he was or what they talked about or anything like that, though.

Mr. Jenner.

Was Lee an industrious boy as a high school boy? He didn't seem to have worked much after school.

Mrs. Murret.

Well, of course, he was a young kid. I don't know what he did at home. I know I never did have anything for him to do at my house.

Mr. Jenner.

Did your boys work after school when they did go to school?

Mrs. Murret.

My boys?

Mr. Jenner.

Yes.

Mrs. Murret.

My boys--let's see. They always went to school, and during vacation time, well, they had paper routes and things like that.

Mr. Jenner.

That's what I mean.

Mrs. Murret.

One of my boys had a paper route, and he bought about $900 worth of bonds, because I figured that I didn't need his money to feed him, and by buying a bond every 2 weeks, he would have enough to go to school later on; and it really came in handy, and then he used to pass out public service bills. One of my boys had three jobs at one time. He used to go to Loyola, where he was studying sociology, and he was given a fellowship to work in Father Victor's office. He was a priest, and he helped the father write a book, so he was given a fellowship that last year, but he always worked his way, and Marilyn had went to school and she had worked her way through school too, and Joyce, we helped pay her way through, but she had to leave school for 1 year and go to work in order to get back again to school, but now Lee just didn't think he had to go to school. He said that he was smart enough and that he couldn't learn anything at school, that nobody could teach him anything. I think his mother thought he was very smart too, evidently, you know, because she always upheld his brightness, and he was bright, you know.

Mr. Jenner.

Did he do a lot of reading when he stayed at your home?

Mrs. Murret.

Well, he didn't do much reading at my house, but she said he stayed in the room up there where they lived and read all the time, and that he had this little radio that he had taken apart and fixed, and so forth, things like that, and he said he didn't have any friends because it was no use, because they didn't like to do the things he liked to do.

Mr. Jenner.

Who didn't like to do the things he liked to do?

Mrs. Murret.

Lee's friends wouldn't like to do the things Lee liked to do. Lee said that. Most of the boys had money, you know, and went out on the weekends with girls and so forth, but Lee couldn't afford those things, so he didn't mix, but he did like to visit the museums and walk around the front and go to the park and do things like that, and you very seldom can get a teenager to do that kind of thing these days not even then. They don't all like that type of life, you know, but that's what he liked.

Mr. Jenner.

Was he inclined to want to be by himself?

Mrs. Murret.

What's that?

Mr. Jenner.

Was he inclined to want to be by himself?

Mrs. Murret.

Well, he said that that was the reason why, because I asked him, "Why don't you go out with the boys from school?" and so forth, and he said, "Well, they don't like the same things I like." But I do remember when he was at my house he used to call some little girl all the time and talk to her quite a long time on the telephone, and I think he made friends with some boy at Beauregard School when he was in the Sea Scouts for a while. He had a uniform and everything. He didn't stay in there too long, I don't think.

Mr. Jenner.

He wasn't in the Sea Scouts too long?

Mrs. Murret.

No; he wasn't.

Mr. Jenner.

Is there a Liberty Hotel here in New Orleans?

Mrs. Murret.

There could be.

Mr. Jenner.

Or the Hotel Liberty?

Mrs. Murret.

There might be; I don't know.

Mr. Jenner.

What kind of apartment was that that your sister Marguerite had on Exchange Alley?