I must tell you something that ha pened on the afternoon 
I spent with him. Just as we,(Blanche Ames and I,)were 
leaving his Garden, we gave him a considerable sum of 
money to pay for a sickly plant of y.-arsewiczella dis ¬ 
color , a flowering one, that was to furnish inspiration 
for a water-color drawing en route to Panama, Just then 
a bevy of tourists arrived and Clausen was all eyes for 
a few more quarter dollar pieces, Blanche tried to tell 
him that she wanted an hpidendrum atropurpureum for which 
she had paid in advance, and that she would like tc have 
it pronto, because s me friends were waiting for her and 
she did not care to hang round until another lecture on 
orchids etc,, had been delivered, Clausen told her to 
help herself. And this she did, taking a very small plant 
that was trying to conceal Itself, I suppose for very 
good reasons, on the side of a tree that was unseeable 
from the garden walk. It so happened that the taxi driver, 
who had a clear view down the path, saw this action, and 
being ignorant of the transaction '-hat led to it, reported 
it ae a theft to old man Clausen. That evening I was sitting 
in the "park" listening to a band concert and having my 
profile sketched by a young Costa Mean who sat on a bench 
near at hand, (The profile sketch was handed to me later 
with "How you like it? O.K." written aero s the bottom, and 
is now in my diary'}. I saw Clausen coaling along the main 
path. He spied us and came to sit with us, V/e discussed 
Costa Rican politics and the difficulties of the florists 
business. After the concert Clausen insisted on walking 
