TRANSVESTIA

events pass. (This was sometime in late 1961.) It will come back into focus.

So Phi Pi Epsilon got underway. We renamed the Hose and Heels club the Alpha chapter of Phi Pi Epsilon and operated under that banner. I began to encourage special individuals of whom I had some special knowledge or relationship to try to pull together other sisters in the same locality to form chapters of their own in other cities and in a small way FPE began to spread here and there.

In February of 1962 Barbara married a girl that he had met in AA. Her name was Joyce and she was a very vivacious and attractive girl. We became good friends-she, my wife, and myself. Chevalier was, at this time, housed in a small room at the back of the building that my chemical business occupied and that was where Bob worked. After a couple of months he brought Joyce into the act to handle some of the mailing and correspondence details. She was so friendly in the way she wrote to TVs around the country that she won their hearts and more people wrote to her than to either Bob or myself.

Barbara-Bob naturally moved out of Lynn's house and he and Joyce got an apartment of their own. Things went along very nicely for and with them for some months. Then one morning about six months after she had begun to work for Chevalier she did not show up. Wondering what had happened I called her apartment and found her hysterical and raving about Bob's having beaten her up and walking out, etc. I called up my wife to meet me at her apartment and went over to see what it was all about. It appeared that Bob had fallen off the wagon, gotten drunk and violent, beaten her up for some reason and walked out. Later he came back for something and when she wouldn't let him in, he broke in a window and scared her to death again. Finally when he was in the bathroom she called the police and when he came out she told him she had done so and he ran out. Later that night they found him and hauled him off to jail.

In the meantime she was panicked and refused to stay in that apartment any longer. So my wife and I found her another apartment and the next day we moved her there. She wanted to leave the state and thus leave Chevalier, too. Obviously, under the circumstances of his behaviour I could not have Bob-Barbara back as part of the organization as I couldn't trust him any more as I was responsible for the security of all the names and addresses of my readers. Thus it

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