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conversation Mr. Pickering paid over to Mr. Noice as agent of our
company three thousand dollars and agreed to pay him fifteen hundred
dollars more for world rights to a further story based upon Knight's diary, Ada
Blackjack's diary and the photographs.

Up in Toronto Mr. Taylor knew that Mr. Noice had now
received the money and assumed he would promptly soon transmit it to the com-
pany's office. He also assumed that he was carrying on negotiat-
ions with the North American Newspaper Alliance,with the co-operation
of Miss Marbury, and that the company would soon learn what the offer
was. When no money or information came from New York, Mr. Taylor
wrote to Mr. Noice reminding him that the money was urgently needed.
To this Mr. Taylor received a reply to the effect that Mr. Noice was
astonished that Mr. Taylor should think that there was any money
coming to the company. The original cable had been Mr. Noice's own
and he, therefore, was the only one who had a standing in the case.
The money ought to be and was his, he had it and would keep it. This
was Mr. Taylor's first intimation that we could not rely upon Mr.
Noice and was a great shock to him, for up to that this moment everything
had been conducted on a friendly, personal basis with a minimum of
written documents or formal agreements - a gentlemen's arrangement
where good faith and sympathy were taken for granted on all sides.
Even now it did not occur to Mr. Taylor that Mr. Noice had any thought
of making a further sale to the North American Newspaper Alliance or of doing
anything except co-operate with Miss Marbury for arranging the terms
and getting everything in such shape that I could render a decision.
upon the arrangements immediately upon landing. However they were
sufficiently disturbed so that so they decided not to trust to letters or
long distance telephones, and Mr. Taylor and Mr. Anderson, therefore,
came to New York to discuss everything with Mr. Pickering and to see
me immediately on landing.