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  • people whom we accosted knew where the hotel wee located, end of those who claimed to know, more than one gave us a. bum steer? Pin- ally we struck a. kid who guided us to the door, being rewarded with a franc for his good work. With a "Merci bien. Monsieur" he beat it, end we entered the saored portals of what was destined to be our dwelling place for the next twelve days. The proprietor wes unable to sneak or understand a word of English, but we finally made him uomprehend that we wanted rooms. So up the stairs he went, we following him. One flight, two flights three flights he took us up, and then unlocked the doors of our future bed rooms. Gee, they sure looked cosy to us - accustomed to the rough and ready army camps, A three quarter bed, with a box mattress, and two others similar to the one on my bed at home. Two dandy soft pillows and clean white sheets - honest, it was all I could do to refrain from jumping into bed right then and there. Then there was e sofa, a dandy big wardrobe with a large mirror for a door, and two small tables, besides the usual chairs. ITo running water, but that didn’t worry us any, Now you have a fairly good idea of how comfortable we were. By this time it was getting on for ten o’clock, and not having eaten very much since breakfast, we "parley-voued" for a while with the old man with excellent results, for he brought us a dandy meal. Gee, it sure tasted fine too, after the monotonous army fare. The reoast finished, we went into the office, and turned over most of our money to the old guy, keeping out enough to defray our expenses for the following day, or at least an amount we thought sufficent. discovered before many days had passed that it was on impossibility to figure beforehand the cash needed for the day's jollification. ? The "call of the bed" proved irresistoble about now, so we climbed up the three flights and I was between the sheets, sans clothes, sans everything. Say, maybe it wasn’t fine to feel the soft sheets under my chin again, it being the first time since we were in London. And the bed - holy mackinaw - I almost sank out of sight. But to tell the honest truth - no kidding - I didn’t sleep very well the first night. Had been so accustomed to a hard bed that the sudden change was too much for me. Also so used to early .rising that I was up, had a bath, and was shaved before the rest of the g8ng. All of them had the same story to tell of a fitful sleep. After the first night, however, I had no difficulty whatsoever in { wooing Morpheus,\ In fact, never elect better in my life. Here's a question. If it takes eleven cages for me to describe the trip from camp to the first morning in Peris, how many will it take before I finish the tale of our twelve days sojourn in the gay French capital? Give up? So do I. But really it isn't very often I have a chance to write about anything that is interesting to me, so if I stretch this out too long, just lay it to the fact that I am preparing for my journalistic? career. We’re off again.
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