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A WONDERFUL LOVER 61 i They met the next day. Said the one from the East: "Dolfy was wonderful last night. He squeezed my handball the way home." "That was when he wasn't squeezing mine," snapped the other. "Finally the lady from the East forged to the front and took possession of Adolfo. He lived well, had plenty of money and prospered. The apart- ment was cosy and comfortable and there was al- ways room for him. This lasted until the woman who ran the apartment house decided things were getting a little bold. The lady was asked to move. Which she did and Adolfo went along. But the time came for going home and her husband's in- sistence could be overcome no longer. She de sorrowingly. "After that it was one after another. He was making a good living. He finally began to drift over to Los Angeles. He enlarged his territory. He became a four o'clock tea hound at the principal downtown hotel. He walked about the lobby with his hat off. Was thoroughly at home. The four o'clock teas were patronized by a group of women whose husbands bored them and a few young girls who didn't care. He found many patrons here and basked in the sunshine of success and plenty. "On one occasion a florist who had received a bad check from Adolfo went over to the hotel, where he had been informed he spent his afternoons. He found him and demanded payment in no un- certain terms. Dolfy asked him to wait. But the florist followed him into the tea room and there our hero whispered a word or two to a sportive looking matron and came back smiling with the money to make good the check. •-