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82 course. Mother was terribly pleased with the sensation she’d just caused while trying to amuse the visiting ladies and her own daughter. I didn’t want to steal her thunder. Vallee rarely did anything but write notes throughout all our investigations. He took reams of notes every other day we were together, as we looked at sites and talked with spectators and landowners. We questioned and measured and observed and photographed. So far as I know he drew no conclusions at all. If he did come to some conclusion he never told me. Every trip we made was through my discovery of whatever was puzzling people at a specific area. I would try to learn more about it then I’d contact ¥.------ -- es nn a Se RO EO Os ND a Jacques and he would come flying in and then the two of us would go measure, observe, question and photograph whatever had come my way. Sometimes I felt as if the whole series of investigations, and my part in them particularly, were just one big charade staged for the man’s private entertainment. Maybe he used those voluminous notes to write a book... in French, perhaps. He certainly never published anything in English about our investigations, or none that I have ever seen. I aod don’t know. Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding That’s when I began to wonder who he really was.