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' At Paquito's mean quarters I found him with his suit of lights carefully laid out on the bed, his two pe6ns and picador standing by with their suits, and three or four local aficionados. Th blond young American in the Pachuca sweater I'd met on the bu came to the door of the G6mez; suite and, when the guard would no allow him to enter, sipalled that I join him in the hall. In those now shattered buildings I had been born and my father before me. Whev Don Alfonso's wife appeared the young matador saw she was one ol ~ I The Spaniard 31

It was the city of Toledo, the old mining cit of colonial days, its monuments intact, and it was the fairest sight had ever known. One of the most exciting afternoons in the life of Victoriano, Leal came when he was twelve years old, for He had neither, and as he tried repeatedly, with sweat rolling down his face, the crowd began a monotonous chant with each thrust: 'Tres, cuatro, cinco, seis. Then, wrapping the jagged ends in cloth, and holding both banderillas in the right hand, he began the slow, fatal march towards the bull.