Mrs. EVANS. Well, he said that he did not want to give up his American citizenship, and that he never intended to do so. He said, "I am an American," and he said, "I just went over there, just messing around."
Mr. JENNER. Did he express to you then or at any subsequent time his opinion of Russia and his reaction to the life he had in Russia?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, he didn't seem to think they had treated him too bad. I guess he was just a young man in love with this Russian girl, but he did say now that he had decided not to come back to the States until he could bring her with him. He did say that, so from that conversation I gathered that he evidently wanted to come back, but he had married into a Russian family, and he had to get out the best way he could.
Now, this Russian woman, I don't know if she was Russian born or not, but the paper said that this woman was a teacher, and that she taught Russian.
Mr. JENNER. You mean Mrs. Paine? You are talking about Mrs. Paine now?
Mrs. EVANS. Yes; I didn't even remember her name.
Mr. JENNER. You mean the lady that brought Marina over to New Orleans from Texas?
Mrs. EVANS. Yes; the one that brought Marina and the baby to New Orleans.
Mr. JENNER. Well, we will get into that in a minute, Mrs. Evans; she's not a Russian woman, by the way. She's a girl from Columbus, Ohio, that was a Quaker.
Mrs. EVANS. Well, she did speak Russian, and she was the lady friend of Marina that was going to bring Marina and the baby to New Orleans.
Mr. JENNER. Well, that's right; she does speak Russian?
Mrs. EVANS. He told me that his wife didn't speak American.
Mr. JENNER. Did he say why she didn't speak English?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; did he give you any reason for that, why she wasn't learning the English language since she was living over here?
Mrs. EVANS. No; he didn't say anything about that.
Mr. JENNER. What impression did you have of Lee as of that visit, Mrs. Evans, because you were with him for quite a while there on this apartment hunting tour? What did you think of Lee?
Mrs. EVANS. Well, he was, I would say, sort of arrogant. He seemed to think of himself as being sort of apart from everybody else, and he carried himself so straight, and the way he had of avoiding people, and keeping within himself, and, you know, not talking too much--I noticed all that. I asked him how his mother was, and he said his mother was fine, and I asked him about his brothers, because his brothers were both in Texas, and I believe one of them has a child or two, or something like that, and he said as far as he knew they were all right. We were just sort of talking, you might say, on the surface. You know how you do, riding along, and all the time looking for something--like we were looking for apartment signs. We were getting out and looking, and getting back in, and just driving around looking and talking about things in general.