Mr. Jenner. He didn't work?
Mr. Pic. I don't think so.
Mr. Jenner. All right.
Mr. Pic. That is right, he was playing around with girls at that time.
Like I said, my mother and Mr. Ekdahl were having problems. It would seem they would have a fight about every other day and he would leave and come back. Well, it seems one night, as I was returning from work, I think we closed the store about 10 o'clock, Mr. Ekdahl and she drove up and told me that they wouldn't be home that night, that they were going downtown to the Worth Hotel. This was one of their reunions, and this was one of their longer separation periods.
So, I went back and I told Lee and Robert, and this seemed to really elate Lee, this made him really happy that they were getting back together. Mr. Ekdahl, while Robert and I were at the academy would write us, he was a great one for writing poetry. He would send us a poem about ourselves or something, treated us real swell. Well——
Mr. Jenner. I—what is your impression of Mr. Ekdahl, did Lee like him?
Mr. Pic. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. That is your definite impression that he liked him.
Mr. Pic. Yes, sir; I think Lee found in him the father he never had. He had treated him real good and I am sure that Lee felt the same way, I know he did. He felt the same way about it, because Mr. Ekdahl treated all of us like his own children.