"Yes, he owned this hotel."
"He must have been a queer Dick if you can believe what you read."
"Oh, the half of his queerness hasn't been printed."
"Was he a customer of yours?"
"No indeed. He never bought anything in the hotel. Said he could get it cheaper outside. Got his meals over on Eighth avenue and around."
"I wonder he lived here at all. Did he have a fine suite?"
"No, the cheapest rooms in the house."
"Where were they?"
"On the second floor at the back on the Forty ——th street side."
"He must have been a funny sight here in the lobby with his old hand-me-downs."