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“Well, sir, I’ve never actually seen you dancing, except at state dinners Never at your desk”

“This is the first tih to dance at ram at Hensen and collapsed onto a sofa, out of breath, but still chuckling and congratulating himself

Hensen scanned the telegraned CROSS AND CORBETT, and originated froraph station in McComb, Mississippi The report described in detail events that had occurred during the previous several days—lynchings, Klan un battle, the arrest of three Raiders on charges of first-degree murder

It was this last piece of inforhted the president

“There it is!” Roosevelt shouted “White ht down there in the heart of Dixie Now let Du Bois and that Wells-Barnett woro problem!”

Hensen’s eyes caram “It is excellent news, sir”

“Worth dancing about, Hensen?”

“Well, sir… certainly”

For a oing to make him dance

“Do you knohy I ah to receive this most excellent news, Mr Hensen?”

“Why is that, sir?”

Roosevelt peered around the sofa “Where’d you go, Hensen?”

“I’ up the mail”

“Never aret the afternoon off I want to send ratulations to Abraham Cross and Ben Corbett What shall it be, then, a letter or a wire?”

Hensen took a little notebook and pencil from his vest pocket