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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 $oo 
Food 50 00 
Ice Cream 15 00 
Total $83.00 
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. 
