154 BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK. 



to be permitted the privilege of photographing the 

 Tommies and the expedition generally. It was 

 therefore crushing to find on the morrow that he 

 had unexpectedly fled at daybreak, with all his 

 worldly possessions. He did not know it, but he 

 was obeying the decree that, Claudian-like, we 

 should blight the fortunes of every hotel we stayed 

 at, and reign in malign monopoly of coffee-room 

 and table-cfhSte. 



