MY MOTHER WAS A BRAVE WOMAN.

MY MOTHER WAS A BRAVE WOMAN. My mother had a courage that may have come partly from the Bradleys. She told me of apartment sitting at the Bradleys’ apartment when they took long trips. Once she went to see the famous Orson Welles production of MacBeth and found herself frightened when she got home to the empty apartment. My mother, who never fired a gun in her life, got one of Mr. Bradley’s guns and slept with it under her pillow. She also was responsible for handling Mr. Bradley’s apartment buildings while they were away. Once she got a phone call from tenants who told her that the janitor at their building had threatened tenants with a gun. She went in person to tell the janitor that he was fired.