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extreme. Two of them succeeded, however, in getting us and our 

 luggage to the Hotel Anglais, run by an English woman, where we 

 secured a room. It contained four beds, a passage way between them, 

 a washstand, and a broad balcony overlooking the street. The heat was 

 really terrific and the sandy streets of the town shot it up into the 

 rooms until it seemed almost unbearable. Our stout companion by 

 this time had a splitting headache, so we put him to bed and began to 

 take care of him. I secured for him a cup of tea, part of which he drank. 

 Another got him a glass of lemonade, which seemed to do him more 

 good than the tea, and then for the moment he felt so much better that 

 we got a waiter to bring him up a light meal, after which, discovering 

 that the hotel afforded ice cream, he had a plate of that. Then he began 



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to feel ill again : indeed, I think he would have refunded all he had eaten 

 had I not shown him the bill, which was itemized as follows : 



Tea $10.00 



Lemonade $.00 



Food 50.00 



Ice Cream i5-QO 



Total 



t.oo 



Thrifty New Englander that he was, he subdued nature, and in a swelter 

 of perspiration announced his intention of keeping what he had paid so 

 high for. 



