A goodbye.
In fifteen minutes I had finished eating, swilled a cup of industrial strength scorch, got Solly’s keys and all the dope on how to handle his big new DeSoto, received a sack of ribs from Cleo to eat along the way and paid my adioses to Trumbo and Len Fugate who saw Helen and me to the door.
Borrowed from Spanish adiós; see there for more. Doublet of adieu.
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By the time they got there, somebody’d adiosed the corpse.