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delegates as resplendent in fine array. 
(ffroa memoranda and 
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memory ) — I left Florence ahout 1 a. m. , the train "being over an 
hour late, I had a distressing time finding out which train to 
take, There were two great platforms and I did not know which one 
was for trains for Roma and which for trains for the north. They 
would not sell me a through tickey, either, only to the frontier, 
I aid not know the train was late and tried to take a train that 
eame along ah out the time mine was due, hut I could not get a door 
open— there was no conductor in sight , hut there usually is not, 
I appealed to a sleepy fakino and he said it was not my train- 
though I was hy no means sure he knew, I took to asking every fakino 
in sight on "both platforms as to which platform the train for Brenner 
would stop at, I got two replies for one, three for the other, not 
a reassuring plurality. As time passed some passengers appeared, 
and I asked a soldier fin allege ' end , ' ~ - - : © ~ 
in what he thought was English, hut I could guess hetter than he 
could. I could not make him understand Brenner. He asked "Verona?" 
"Ho, Brenner," after several more guesses, he half turned away from 
me as if out of patience . I was desperate and repeated "Brenner," 
" with all the emphasis at my command" as Teddy would put it, and the 
soldier said, "Oh, Brrrrennairrrrrr rr J " Then he told me when the 
train was likely to he along, and it finally did come. It was easy 
going through the frontier this time, for I had only my tiny hand- 
hag. The conductor sold me a ticket , charging me extra for not 
having a through ticket , when they would not sell me a through one 
in Florence. It was a glorious day crossing the Tyrol again— as 
long as I had to take the journey I wanted to make the most of it. 
The compartment was crowded, 7 of us, hut 1 had taken the seay hy 
the window while a man was a t hreakfast, and he kindly insisted on m 
my keeping it. He was husy smoking and talking with the others, any- 
