Perhaps I shall do well to say that on questions of right and wrong he had a will of iron.

All his life he moved resolutely in whichever direction his conscience pointed; and although that ever present and never obtrusive conscience of his made mistakes of judgment now and then, as must all consciences, I think it can never once have tricked him into any action that was impure or unclean.

Some critics maintain that the heroes and heroines of his books are impossibly pure and innocent young people.

R.H.D.never called upon his characters for any trait of virtue, or renunciation, or self-mastery of which his own life could not furnish examples." In June of 1912 Richard reported the Republican convention at Chicago.
Shortly after this, on July 8, he married at Greenwich, Connecticut, Miss Elizabeth Genevieve McEvoy, known on the stage as Bessie McCoy, with whom he had first become acquainted in 1908 after the estrangement from his wife.
Richard and his wife made their home at Crossroads, where he devoted most of his working hours to the writing of short stories.

In August of that year my brother, accompanied by his wife, returned to Chicago to report the Progressive convention.