A Spy named NORTON.

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We do have copies of Conrad's books as well as photos of him and his wife (a very handsome and aristocratic couple - I believe she was part of the FFV Balls). These were given to us by Conrad's great niece years ago. Coincidentally, for the first twenty years of my married life, we lived across the street from a Conrad descendant (his middle name was Conrad) and their children played with our daughter all the time. The Conrad line married into Maryland's Perrie family, one that I have always suspected of being part of the Maryland planters' "activities."

My daughter swears that I cannot go anywhere or do anything that doesn't relate somehow to the Lincoln assassination. When she and her husband purchased a home in Charles County, the land records showed that it was originally farmland owned by the Offut family -- as in Emma Offut, sister-in-law of John Lloyd, the tenant at Surrattsville whose testimony did in Mrs. Surratt. Emma Offut was living with the Lloyds and is the one to whom Mrs. Surratt first gave the package containing Booth's field glasses.

My daughter's words were, "Damn, there's no escape!" Booth could have told her that.