stefansson-wrangel-09-34-036

Blackjack -6-

the Bering Straits. Asked me to request Mr. Dibble to run a
derogatory piece on Blackjack, and perhaps Noice. This Mr.
Dibble would not do.

Herewith, in Manila envelope marked "A" is a "report”
on Noice. My father was then still living and it would appear
that Frances had appealed to him to obtain a character report
regarding Noice. Note that my father's secretary, Bogert,
addresses Frances as "Mrs. Allison"--the name she usually took
between marriages.

Noice did speak to me once or twice concerning Frances'
behavior and her unreasonable imaginings about people, but he
considered her not well, and that she’d get over it. So there
followed a temporary reconciliation and a proposed exploration
trip to South America with Frances in which Noice was to take
moving pictures. I went to the Ft. Lee Processing Labs with him
and there we purchased a used camera, ran some tests with it,
and saw these projected. At this time he told me that Fanny’s
ideas about the Wrangel situation and Ada Blackjack were for
the most part"in her head" and her statements concerning the
matter sheer poppycock.

When they boarded the ship for South America, there
ensued, it seems, a bad scene between them. Mailed at the time
of the ship's departure, I received a scrawled and strained
statement from Noice in which he retracted all that he told me
concerning Blackjack and the Wrangel group. Knowing my sister
well, this note bore the signs of having been dictated by her.
A case of "you do what I say and write this, or else." I didn’t
take it seriously, but felt sorry for Noice. Frances, (or
Fanny, as we called her), had to play boss and run everyone with