I must apologize for not serving you real coffee,
said my hostess.
They were hardly needed for the few motor cars
andoccasional buses that crawled slowly by.
Any other use of a flashlight isstrictly
prohibited. Were doing new business already and wellget more.
A number of Germans boarded the train at
Verona.
Munich is a great city, yetit was almost as dark as
the countryside. Anyhow, we promptly weighed anchor and were off. On the African
shorethe jagged sierras of Morocco were draped in mists. There it stands, with
gilded lionsand unicorns upon its portals.
And this is the true voyage, thegood one, the best.
More often Iencountered a black-uniformed S.
Soldiers, obviously on Sunday liberty,passed and
repassed, sometimes in large groups. I bought my letter of credit in New York at
therate of nearly five to the dollar. The sight of thosemany impounded ships stirred
every Italian aboard.
We dont forget how we gotgypped at Versailles.
Ithad no number and seemed to be disused.
I couldtell this by the big extra cylinders clamped
along their sides. Also my train compartment wasbrilliantly
illuminated.
Nobodyknew but the ships officers, and they wouldnt
tell.
But the nearerwe can come to it, the
better.
Thank goodness,we dont have any more of
them.
The colonists were housed in great blocks of modern
tenements,forming an entire new quarter.