SYRIA 109 



day, I failed to find a comfortable night's lodging 

 for my pets, but an old friend who was living 

 in apartments kindly undertook their charge. He 

 handed them with many instructions to his landlady, 

 who thought and perhaps said, " Drat the beasts ! " 

 and shut them up in the cold scullery, where they 

 were found the next morning dead in one another's 

 arms. 



