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into his voice when he described some particular play and his knowledge of football players seemed encyclopaedic. I found this surprising, an odd curleycue in a man whose interests ran so largely to literature, the theater and French prints. I t developed that he also spent as much time as he could on the golf course. Unlike the many men who have no other topic of conversation except business, Leon seemed averse to talk about his. My efforts to draw him out on the subject was unproductive. Between riding, golfing and travelling around to see football games, I gathered he had little time for his business. I enjoyed his company and he obviously liked me. At that stage, however, we were merely good friends.

When summer came in the following year, I again bought a third-class steamship ticket and went to Paris. I went straight to the little hotel on the rue de l'Universite where the family welcomed me like a long-