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Show DUPLICITY I ISJNDED I Woman Who Had Mas- queraded as a Boy M Gives Up Disguise M Long"Beach, Cal., Juno 27. Mrs. H Roy Ballou Is no longer a "iboy." After IH seven years of poBing as hor husband's IH brother, during which time she worked. H as a boy deckhand on Ballou s craw- IH Hah craft, .Mrs. Ballou today walked H into police headquarters and tola her H story. She said she was being fol- H lowed by a man she thought was a de- jH tectlve, and she decided to end hor H duplicity H While a girl in a convent, her heavy H bushy hair proved difficult for her to H handle, and she had it cut off. It was H then she decided that she .would mako H short trips to the Islands. It was on H ono of theso that she me I Ballou and H thoy were married. Once she was put H ashore off Point Loraa as a dynamite H suspect operating against the Theoso- H phists' Institution thore, but. was re- H Mrs. Ballou says sho got along much H easier as a boy than she could bo H wearing skirts, as scarcely any at ten- H tion Is paid to boys, whereas, sno H claims, a woman's lot on tbo sea Is H anything but pleasant. Her last ex- perlence was ln San Diego when sho jH was arrested on coming ashore from , jH tho steamer Yale, on which boat she H was a cabin boy After telling her H story, she was released by tho police. H The man who was following her today H had been told of her sex by another H woman, and moro curiosity impelled H him to follow her. H oo i- H |