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T H E M O D E R N L I B R A R Y, an d Ii:tin g e¢ch volu m c

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ER N E S T HE M IN G AY , who h as been a foreign con e
in his tim e , is, in spite of his compar ati v e
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of th e best star reporters now pr actisin g

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and his first successful nov el , The Sun .

other things , is an example of

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rate reporting . It is more than that of course
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can reach give it power

exempl ifi ed in this
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k is an ,
of good re r ting It is not as
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been some times s ai m naturalist i c dialogue Let .

reader test it in the succeeding pages He will see .

their methods of e xpressi v e

ess He will repeat a triviality if that tr iviality h as
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e r stops to outline a panorama but keeps the de

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sc ription like the matador close to the bull Th e

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o f scenes seen by
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stammering man I t IS the residuum a f ter the messen

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There is nev ertheless a genuine n ai v eté in Heming

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wa y
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n ai v e or so direct in their desires and emoti ons as to
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break into n ai v eté under the slightest stress To call .

him as one critic h as the most sophisticated write r

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in English seems to me nonsense To be skil f ul 13 not .

to be sophisticated But this trait o f nai v ete is closely

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related to the v ery r aison d étr e o f Hemingway and

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must be discussed much more bro adly than if it were

mer ely technique .

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It is not necessary to read the quotations f r om
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Also Ri ses begins in order to gu ess early at the unify
lng principle of the boo k It 15 stated crudely a lost
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ge neration which he descri b es M ,

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heroine of F arewell to Arms minus its ex piat r y
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o f the tale
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w ear }? on into li f e the bad joke o f sterility‘

wound in war ; they are all to put it cru dely ,

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s attempt to descri be with a t e~

the wreckage o f a n incoheren t tim e

of the h umor and pity of h is v iew

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devil may care is the f riend to be lo v ed

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someth ing and friendship fi r st

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o f all Indeed it is not the hard boiled that im
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th e soph isticated , but rather the f ee ling for pathos with

o u t sen ti m entality as in the study o f M an
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figh ter ifii he sh o r t story The Unde f eated and th at
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death in th e h ospital in A Farewell to Arms
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P erhaps this ten derness in a writer who cho oses by

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o f his war and his residence unr ooted in a

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demoralized post war Europe , with that sense of a

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wor ld in an anarchy of morals and desires so com m on

made for literature . He longs for stabilities for thin gs ,

friendship which recu r in his stories as o f ten as ph rases

in his di alogue Some inarticulate but genuine emo
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tio n al relationship between the characters seem to be

th e outcome o f most of his conversations Jake is
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abad C atholic but when h e prays it is tou ching Brett

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i s enamored of Pedr o Romero

i duration where there can be only

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M i ke be hin d wh ose past one seems always to hear the

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rattle of m achine gu ns and th e dull cru mps of an end ~

less war h as come back to the constancies o f childhood

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cross because he is tired and sick o f playing an d th er e

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is n o thingelse he can do .

More than style more than a r eporter s skill, must ,

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th erefo r e be attributed to Ernest Hem ingway i n or der

to acc oun t for the impression he made with only thr ee ,

major books to h is credit and esp ecially the M m esio n

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he has made u p o n h is own generation For many o f .

who have lost their moorings yet kept the endu r ing
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sim micities of lo v e afiection loy alty mirth and su d

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It is a narrow art limited by the short duration an d

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unnatural character of th e spiritual and moral anarchie s

which succeed national wars and by th e high ly special
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ized qu alities o f the v irtues possible to lost

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The Sim Also R i ses there is frankly only , ,

act er indubitably worth sav ing and that is Jake It , .

was a triumph fo r the author and an encour agement to ‘

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his friends when in A Farewell to Arms Heming ay w
took two broken and disillusioned d r ifters and lifted
them into imaginative worth That feat proved that .

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The Sun Also Rises was not a stunt su cceeding by
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fiesta; A Farewell to Arms sh owed that if Hem in gw

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intensity it is even yet impossible to say but he is
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 You ar e all a los t gene r a t ion .

One g e e a tio
n r sseth a wa y a nd a o the gene a tio
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t h e a t h a bid et h fo e e
e r Th sun r v r . e

and t h su n g e th down a nd h as t eth t

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wh e e h a ose r Th wind g e th t
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th sou th and t u ne th a bou t un to th no th ; it

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whi le th a b u t
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agair a ding t hi i u it
cco r o N ! th
s c rci es s. e r v r

int t h t f u ll; th pla e

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fr om wh n e th i e m e th i the th y e t u n a gai
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R OB E R T CO R N was once middleweight bonhn g cham
D o not thin! ; that I am v er y m u ch
meant a lo t to
nothing for boxing in fact he di sliked
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it painf ully and thoroughly to counter

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Jew at Princeton There was a certain
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he never fough t except in the gym .

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was Spider Kelly s star pupil Spider Kelly taugh t all

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yo r m g gentlemen to box like featherweights no mat ,

whether they weighed one hundred and five or two

But it seemed to fit Cphn .

He was so good that Spider

him an d got his nose perma
fla tten ed This increased Cohn s di staste for
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but i t gave him a certain satisfa ction of some

too much and took to

I never met any one of his class who
They did not even remem be r that he
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into something as a young child but I finally ,
h ad some

not only remembe red Cohn . He had often wondered

o ne of the richest Jewish families in N ew York and ,

thr ough his mo ther of one of th e oldest At th e mili tary

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school where he prepped for Princeton and played a ,

v ery good end o n the football team no one had made ,

h im race conscious N0 one had ever made him feel he

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until he went to Princeton He was a nice boy a friendly

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ay and very sh y and it made him bitter

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o u t in boxing and h e came o u t of Princeton with pain

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ful self con sciousness and the flattened nose and w

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fifty thousan d dollars his father left him the balance oi ,

the est ate having gone to his mother hardened int o a ,

rather unattractive mould under domestic u nhappin e§

wit h a rich wife ; and just when he had made up his
s h e le ft him and went o fi with a
he had been thinking fo r months
abou t leaving his wif e and had not done it because it .

would be too cruel to deprive her of himself h ea de ,

p arture was a ve r y healthf ul shock .

The divorce was arranged and Robert Cohn went out

to the Coast
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In California he fell among liter ary peo
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le an d as h e still had a little of the fif ty thou sand le fi y

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i n a sh br t tim e he was backing a review o f the Ar ts .

an d finished in Prov in cetown Massach u setts By that

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tim e Cohn who had been regarde d pu rely as an aegel,

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and whose nam e had appeared on the edi torial page l

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m er ely as a member of the adviso r y bo ar d h ad become ,
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th e sole editor It was his money and he discovered he

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liked th e authority o f editing He was sorry when the

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magazine became too expe nsive and h e had to give it up .

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By that tim e thou gh he had other things to worry
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about He had been taken in hand by a lady who hoped

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to rise wi th the m agazine She was very forceful and

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C ohn never had a chance o f n o t being taken in hand .

Also he was sure that he loved her h en this l ady saw

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little disgusted with Cohn and decid ed that sh e mi ght

as well get what there was to ge t while there was still

years . During these three years the first spen t in

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in Paris Robert Cohn had two

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B raddocks was his lit

going and her attitude towar d Ro bert changed from one

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about thr ee hundred dollars a month D uring O years .

and a h alf I do not believ e that Robe rt Cohn looke d at

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nov el and it was n et really such a bad no v el
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as the critics later called it al thou gh it was a ver y

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I fir st became aware o f his lady s attitude toward him ’

on e night after the three o f u s h ad dined together We .

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had dined at l Av en u e s and afterward went to the Café
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de Versailles fo r coff ee We had several fines after the .

coff ee and I said I must be going Cohn had been talk

ing about the two of us going off somewhere on a w
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end trip He wanted to get ou t of town and get in a
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good walk I suggested we fly to Strasbourg and walk

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up to Saint Odile o r somewhere o r other in Alsace I , .

know a girl in Strasbo urg wh o can show us the town ,

Somebody kicked me under the table I thought it .

was accidental and went on : She s be en ther e two ’

years and knows everything there is to kn ow about the

town She s a swell gir
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I was kicked again under the table and lookin g saw , ,

Frances Robert s lady her chin lifting and her face

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hardening .

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Hell I said why go to Strasbourg ? We could go
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up to B ruges o r to the Ardennes ,
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Cohn looked relieved I was not kicked again I said

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good night and went out Cohn said he wanted to buy

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a paper and would walk to the corner with me For .

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gir l in Strasbourg for ? Didn t you see Fran ces ? ’

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N o wh y sho uld I ? If I know an M e xi can girl that
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lives in Strasbou rg what the hell is it t o Frances ?
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go that would be all

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Don t be silly ’
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y ou see the way she looked

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Oh well I said
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THA T winter Robert Cohn went over to America with
his novel and it was accepted by a fairly good publisher
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His goin g made an awful r ow I heard and I think that ,

York and when he came back he

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He was more enthusiastic about

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themselves ou t to be nice to

on had been absolutely limi ted

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wife For three .

years or almost three years he had never seen beyond

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Frances I am sure he had never been in l ove in his life

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He had married on th e r ebo un d from the rotten time

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he h ad ih college and Frances t ook him o n the rebound

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from his di scovery that he had n o t been ever ything t o

his first wife He was n o t
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the fact o f a woman caring fo r him and wanting to live

with him was n o t simply a divine miracle This changed .

him so that he was n o t so pleasant to have ar ound .

Also playing for higher stakes than he could aff ord in

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som e ra ther steep bridge games with his New York con
n ection s he had held cards and won several hundred
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t made him rather vain of his bridge gam e and ,

several times o f h ow a man could always make

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but Cohn had read and

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m what lif e holds is about as safe as it would be

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for a man of th e same age to enter Wall S treet dir ect

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from a French convent equipped with a complete se t of

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every word o f The P u r ple Land as li terally as though
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Hello Robert I said
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Would you like to go to South Am en ca Jake ? he ,

Why not ?
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I don t know I never wanted to go Too expensive
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see all the South Americans yo u want in Paris

They re not th e real South Am ericans

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They look awft real to me .

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I had a boat train to ca tch with a week s mail sto ries ,

Do yo u know any dirt ? ”I asked

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None of your exalted connection s getting divorces ?

o uld you go to South Americawith me ?

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no rmal life I want to go back in the country in South

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Africa to shoot ?
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I d go there with you
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N0 that do esn t interest me .

That 5 because you never read a book about it Go .

ful shiny black princesses .

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I want to go to South America .

He had a hard Jewish stubborn streak

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Come on down stairs and h ave a drink
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Aren t you working ?
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No I said We went down the stairs

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on the ground floor I had discov ered that was the best 1
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way to ge t rid of friends Once you had a drink all you

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som e cables and it was
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discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper busi V

ness where it is such an important part o f the ethics
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that you should never seem to be working Anyway we .

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went down stairs to the bar and had a whiskey and soda
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the wall .

the bar Don t .

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you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by
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and you re n o t taking advantage of it ? D o you realize
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South M eti ca hell ! If yo u went there the way you

feel now it would be exactly the same This is a good .
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fe

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sick of P aris; and I m sick of the Quarter .

yourself and see what happens to you .

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Nothing happens to me I walked . all one

me and asked to see my papers .

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Wasn t the town nice at night ?
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I don t car e for Paris .

n ot a thing you could do anythin g about because right ,

America could fix it and he did not like Paris H e go t .

“ the fi rst idea out of a book and I suppose the second ,

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Well I said I ve got to go up stairs and get o ff
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some cables .

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Do you really have to go ?
Yes I v e got to get these cabl es off
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Do you mind if I come up and sit around the c m cc

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No come on up
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He sat in the outer room and read the papers and the ,

Then I sorted out the carbons stamped on a by lie e ,

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put t h e stufi in a couple of big m anila envelopes and

rang for a boy to take th em t o th e Gare St Lazare I
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went out into

was asleep with his

wanted to loc k the offi ce and shov e oil I put my hand .

11 his shoulder He shook his head I m t do it ’

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do it Nothing will make me do it
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R obert I said and shook him by the shoulder
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I T was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on
the terrace o f the Napo h tam after Rober t had gone ,

atching it get dark and the electric signs come on and ,

the red and green stop and go tr affic signal and the - - -

crowd going by and the horse cabs clippe ty clopping

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along at the edge of the solid taxi tr aflic and the pou lzs ,

going by singly an d in pairs looking for the evening

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meal I watched a good looking girl walk past the table

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and watched her go up the street and lost sight of her ,

and watched another and then saw the first one coming,

back again She went by once more and I caught her

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eye and sh e came over and sat down at the table The
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waiter cam e up .

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Well what will you drink ? I asked
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Pernod .

That s n o t good for little gir ls

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Little girl yourself Dites gargo n u n pernod .

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A pernod fo r me too ,
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What s the matter ? ”she asked

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Going on 3 .

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Sure Aren t you ?
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I don t know You never know in this town ”

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Don t yo u like Paris ?
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No .

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Why don t you go somewh ere else ?
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Geor get te How are you called ? .

That s a Flem ish name

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a American too .

You re not Flamand ?

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Good ,
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By this time we were at the restauran t I called to .

th e cooker to stop We got out and Georgette did not .

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lik e the looks of the place This is no great thin g of a .

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restaurant .

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Fo yo t s Why don t you keep the cab and go on ?
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I had picked her up because of a vague sen timental

idea that it would be ni ce to eat with some one It was .

a long time since I had dined with a f ou ls and I had ,

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forgotten h ow dull it could be We went into the res .

a l ittle room . Georgette cheered up a little under the

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food is all right .

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Better than you eat in Li ege .
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matter with you anyway ? ,

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I go t hurt in the war, I said .

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war and agreed that i t Lwas in r eality a calami ty her -
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riv ilization an d per haps would hav e been bet ter avo id ed
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I explained and wen t ou t ,

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a big t abl e with a party

Mrs B raddocks several people I
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to the dance aren t ,

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dancings Don t yo u know we ve revi ved

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Braddo cks put in .

come Jake We re all going F rances

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end of the table She was tall and h ad a.

Of course he s coming Braddocks said

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h ave coffee with us Barnes ,
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And br ing your friend said Mrs Bradd ocks laugh ,

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Thanks we ll be in , I said I went back to the small
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h o are your friends ? Georgette asked .

Writers and artists .

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I think so Still som e of them mak e money

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Oh yes ,
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We finished th e meal and the wine Come on , I .

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We re going to have co’
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went into the room full o f people and Braddocks

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an d the men at his table stoo d up

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ge tte Lebl anc I said Georgette smiled that onder

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m y o u related to Georgette Leblanc the singer ? ,

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Connais pas Georgette answered ,
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But yo u hav e the same name Mrs Braddocks in :
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Sisted cordially .

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No said George tte Not at all : My name is .

Hobin .

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But Mr Barnes introduced you as Mademoiselle
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G geor ette Leblanc Surely he did insisted Mrs .B rad ~
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docks wh o in the excitement of talking French was

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liable to have n o idea what she was say ing .

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He s a fool Georget te said ,
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Oh it was a joke then Mrs Bradd ocks said
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Yes said Georgette ,
To laugh at . .

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Did you hear that Hen ry ? ,

dow n the table to B radd o cks r Barnes intr oduced . .

his fian cée as Mademoiselle Leblan c and her name IS ,

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Of course darling Mademoiselle Hobin I v e known
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h er fo r a very long time .

Oh Mademoiselle Hobin
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speaking French very rapidly and not seeming so pr oud .

and as tonished as Mrs Brad docks at its comin g bu t .

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really Fre nch Have you been m Paris long ? Do you
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like it here ? Yo u love Paris do you n o t ? ”

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h o 5 sh e ? Georgette turned to me Do I h ave
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to talk to her ?
She turned to Fr an ces sitting smiling , firm
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No I don t like Paris It s expen sive and dir ty
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Really ? I find it so extraordinarily clean One of

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Howstran ge ! But perhaps yo u have not been here

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But it does ha v e nice people in it One must grant “

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that .

Georgette turned to me You have nice friends . .

Frances was a little drunk and wou ld h av e l iked to

have kept it up but the coffee came an d Lavigne w ith ,

the liqueurs and after that we all went out and started
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for Br addocks s dancing club ’

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The dancing club was a bal m usette in the rue de la

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M on tagu e Sainte Genevi eve Five nights a week th e .

working people of the Pantheon quarter danced ther e .

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nights it was closed When we arrived it was qu ite .

wife of the proprietor back of the zinc bar and the pr o ,

p r ie tb r himself The daughter of the

. house came down ~

stairs as we went in There were long benches and tables .

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ran across the r oom and at the far end a dancing fl oo r

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I wish people wo uld come earlier B raddocks said , .

Th e dau gh ter came up and wanted to know wha t we

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w ou l d drink The proprietor

. g ot up on a high st ool be

side the dancing fl oor and began to play the accordion

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H e h a d a strin g o f bells around one of his a nkles and

beat time with his foot as he p layed Every one danced ,
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My God , Georgette said . What a box to sweat

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Take your hat 03

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That s a good idea .

Som e one asked Georgette to dance and I went ov er ,

to the bar It was really very h o t and the accor dion

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music was pleasant in the hot night I drank a beer ,

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standing in the doorway and getting the cool breath of

ind from the street Two taxis were comin g down the .

steep street They both stopped in front of the Bal

. .

A crowd of youn g men some in le r

éffi and some in ,

their shirt sleeves got o u t I could see their h ands and

,
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newly wfi ed wavy hair in ,

The policeman standing by the doo r looked at me and

sm ile d They came in As they went in under the ligh t
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I saw white hands wavy hair white faces grimacin g , , , ,

With them was Brett She looked .

There is an actual harlot I m going to dan ée with her .

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Lett You watch me
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The tall dark one called Lett said : Don t you be

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rash .

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an gr y LhEQ LQ are sup posed to
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you sh ould h e tolerant but I wanted

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A an th in f h S
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n y on e
y g t o
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s atter that super ior i p
m e grin ,

composure Instead I alked down the street a

. n d had
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h e bar at the n ex t B al The beer was n o t good .

and I had a worse cognac to take the taste ou t o f m y

mou th .When I came back to the Bal there was a 01 e ' ‘

on the floor and Georgette was dancing with the tall

blond youth wh o danced big hippily carrying his head
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his eyes lifted n as th c

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on on e side , he dan ced As sde

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they would all dance with her @

I sat down at a table Cohn was Sitting th ere Frances
.
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was dancing Mrs B raddocks brough t up somebody

. .

and in troduced him as Robert Pren tiss He was fr om .

novelist He had so in e sort of an En glish accent I

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T
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hanks so much he said I ve just had one ,
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Have another .

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Thanks I will then .

We got the d aughter of the house ov er and each had

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a fine d l eau .

“
You re from Kansas City they tell me
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he said .

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Yes .

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Do y ou find Paris amusing ?
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Yes
u

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yes Don t
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yo u ?
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Oh h ow charmingly you
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h e said I get angry ,
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wish I had that faculty .

I got up and walked over toward the dancing fioo r -

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me Don t be cross with .
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said He s still only a child yo u know
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I wasn t cross I said: I just thought per haps I
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was going to throw up , .

cée is having a great suc cess Mrs B rad ,

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o u the floor wher e George tte was

the tall dark one called Let t

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h e r

M Cohn came up Come on Jake he said Have a

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dr in k ”
.We walked over to the bar What s the mat .
’

ter with you You seem all worked up over something ?

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makes me sick is all .

I said t , .

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Aren t they lovely ? An d you my dear Wher e did
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yo u ge t it ?
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An a lov ely evening ?
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~ Oh priceless I said
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B rett laugh ed It s wrong of you Jake It s an in
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sult to all of us Look at Frances ther e and Jo
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It s in restraint o f tra de
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Brett said . She laug hed
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If the girl I came with asks for me will you giv e her ,
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this ? I said If sh e goes ou t with one o f those gentle
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men will yo u save this for m e ?
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C est entendu Monsieur the patronne said z You , ,
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go no w? So early ? ”

“
Yes I said ,
.

. e started ou t the door Cohn was still talking to .

“
Brett She said good night and took my ar m
. Go od .

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n ight Cohn I said Outside in the street we looked
, ,
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fo r a taxi .

“
You re going to lose your fif ty francs Brett said
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, .
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i Notaxis 5 .

We could walk up to the Pantheon and get one

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Come on and we ll get a dri nk in the pub next door ’ '

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an d send fo r o n e .

M ou ouldn t walk across the street ’

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iN o t if I could help it
B
tw
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e w ent into the next bar and I sent a waiter f o r a

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said we re out away from them
'

I , .

We stood against the tall zinc bar and did not talk
and looked at each other The waiter came and said the .

taxi was outside Brett pressed my hand hard I gave

. .

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the waiter a franc and we went out Where should I .

”
tell him ? I asked .

I told the driver to go to the P ar e M on tsou r is and g t

o ,

in and Slam m ed the door Brett was leanin g back In

,
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the c orner her eyes closed I got in and

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THE taxi wen t p assed the lighted

, square ,

then on in to the climbing then levelled out ,

ont o a dark street behind St Etienne du Mont went.

,

smoothly down th e asphalt passed the trees and the

,
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standing bus at the Place de la Con tr escar pe then turned

t

onto the cobbles of th e Rue M ou ffetar d There were

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ligh ted bar s and late open Shops on each side o f the street .

We were sitting apart and we jolted close together going

down the old street Brett s hat was o fi Her head was
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back I saw her face in the lights from the open sh bps
.
,

then it was dark then I saw h er face cl early as we cam e

’

out on the Avenue des Gobelins The street was torn .

of acetylene flares B rett s face was white an d the long

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line of her neck showed in the bright light of the flare s

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were tight together and then sh e turned away and

pressed again st the corner of the seat as far away as ,

she could get . Her head was dow n .

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Don t touch me she said
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Please d on t t ouch
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sh e was l eaning back against me and we were quite ,

t hat you

all the time H er .

eyes had difi er en t depths sometimes they seemed per

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fectly flat N ow you could see all the way into them
. .

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Oh no I ll lay you d on t
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Well let s shut up about it

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I laughed about it too myself once ,
She wasn , ,
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looking at me A friend of my brother s
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tim e or ano ther I had probably considered it from m hst

otdts v arious angles including the o n e t at certain in
,
h
juries o r imperfections are a subject of merriment while
remaining quite serious for the perso n possess ing them .

lot fi
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good to see each other .

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No I don t think it is
. .

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Don t yo u want to ?
”
I have to .

e were sitting n ow like two strangers On the right .

was the Parc M on tso u r is Th e restaurant where they

.

have the pool Of liv e trout and where you can sit and

”
Wher e do you want to go ? I asked Brett turn ed .

her head away .

Oh go to the Select
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C afé Select I told the driv er Boule v ard Mont
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par nasse We drove stfaigh t down turning around the

.
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Lion de Belfort that guards t h e passin g Montrouge

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tram s Brett looked straight ahead On the B oulevard

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R aspail with the lights of Mon tparnasse in sight Brett

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omething ?
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Slie p u ll e
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too much oi a mess ? d her

down an d started in fo r the bar Inside »
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and at tables were most o f the ,

“
Hello yo u chaps Brett said ,
I m going to have a , .
’

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drink .

“
Oh Brett ! Brett ! the little Greek portrait painter
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wh o called himself a d uke and whom everybody called ,

”
Zizi pushed up to her
,
I go t something fin e to tell you . .

“
Hello Zizi Brett said , ,
.

I want you to meet a friend Zizi said A fat man ,

.

came up .

C ount M i i
pp p p
o o lo u s meet my frien d Lady As hley .

Ho w do yo u do ? sar d B rett
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Well does your Ladyship have a good time here in
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Paris ? asked Count M ippipopolous who wore an elk s

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tooth on his watch chain -

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Ra ther said Brett , .

Paris is a fine town all right said the count But ,

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I gh ess you h ave pretty big doings yourself over in

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London .

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Oh yes said Brett ,
Enormous ,
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Bradd ocks called to me fr om a table ; Barnes he ,
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said have a drink Th at gir l of yours go t in a fright
,
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fu l r o w
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What about ?
Som ething th e patronne s daughter said A cork ing ’
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r ow Sh e was rathe r splendid you know Sh owed her

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yellow card and demanded the p atronne s daughter s
too I say it was a r ow
. .

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What finally happened ?

girl . Won derful com m and e f the idiom

. . Do stay and
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“
5 said I must shove off Seen Cohn ? . .

‘4
He went home with Frances M r s Br addo cks put in
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Poor chap he looks awfully down B raddocks said

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I dare say he is said M r s B raddocks

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“ ” “
I have to Shove o ff I said Good night ,
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I said good night to Brett at the bar The count was .

buyin g M pagn e “
Will you take a glass o f wine with
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tis sir ?
,
he asked .

Really going ? Brett asked )

I ve go t a rotten headache j
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Y
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es I said . .

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I ll see you to morrow ?
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Come in at the offi ce .

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Hardly .

Well where will I see you ?

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Anywhere around five o clock ’

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Make it the other side o f town then .

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Good I ll be at the Crillon at five ’
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Try and be there I said ,
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Don t worry Brett said

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I ve nev er let yo u down ’

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ha v e I ?
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“Lett er to '

Good ni ght sir Said the count , ,

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I went ou t onto the sidewalk and walked down

the Boulevard St Michel pa ssed the t a
bles of the R o .
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tonde still crowded looked acr oss the street at the

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Dome its tables running o u t to th e edge o f the pave y

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m ent Some o n e waved at me from a table I did n o t see

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who it was and went on I wan ted to get home The

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Boulevard M on tpam asse was desert

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par tist Groups some date ; I forget He looked ver y

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fin e Marshal Ney in his top boots gesturing with his

,
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sword among the green new horse chestnut leaves My -

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flat was just across the street a li ttle way d own the ,

Boule vard St Michel . .

’
There was a light in the concierge s room and I knocked
on the door and she gave me m y m ail I wished her good ,
.

night and went u p stairs There were two letters and

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some papers I looked at th em under the gas light in

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the din ing room The letters were from the States One
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was a bank statement It Showed a balance of .

I got out my check book and deducted fou r checks - »

had a balance of I wrote this on the back of

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the statement The other letter was a wedding announce

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men tl Mr and Mrs Aloysius Kirby announce the mar

. .

r iage of their daughter Kather ine —

I knew neither the
g ir l n o r the m an sh e was m ar r in
y g T
hey m ust be cir .

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culari mg the town It was a funny nam e I felt su re I

. .

could r emember anybody with a name like Aloysius It .

was a good Catholic name There was a crest on the .

Like Zizi the Greek duke And that .

unt was funny Brett had a title too .

, .

To hell wi th Brett To hell with you .

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beside bed turned ofi the ga

, s and .
,

opened th e wide The bed was far back fr om

dressed by the bed Outside .

the street car track s went by

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take it .

awake thinking and my mind jumping around .

’
Th en I couldn t keep away from it and I started to
-

think about Brett and all the rest of it went away I .

was thinking about Brett and my mind stopped jump

around and started to go
11 all of a

tter and I lay in bed and listened to the heavy

“

trams go by and way down the street and then I went ,

to sleep .

tened and I thought I recognized a voice I pu t on a

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dressing gown and went to th e door The concierge was

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that you Monsieur Barnes ? the concierge called

18 , .

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Yes It s me . .

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There s a species of woman here who s waked the
whole street up What kind of a dirty business at this
.

time of night ! She says she must see you I ve told her
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:
Then I heard Brett s voice Half asleep I had been ’
.

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sure it was Georgette I don t know why She could
“
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n o t have k nown my address .

“
Will you send her up please ? ,

Brett came up the stairs I saw sh e was quite drunk . .

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Silly thing to do sh e said Make an awful r ow I
,
. .

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m y yo u weren t asleep were you ?
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What did you thi nk I was doing ?
Don t know What time is it ?
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a?
down ? Don t be cross darling Just left the count
sit
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He brought me
What s he like ? I was getting brandy and soda
’

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Just a little ,
said Brett . Don t try and make me

Is he a count ?
Here s how I ra ther think so you know Deserves
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to be anyhow Knows hell s o wn amount about people

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Do n t know where he go t it all Own s a chain o i sweet

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shops in the States .

She sipped at her gi ass .

Think he called it a chain Something like that . .

How do I buck o n about all this ? You don t mind ’

,

do you ? He s putting up for Zizi you know ”

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“
Is Zizi really a duke too ? ,
’
I shouldn t wonder Greek you know Rotten .
,
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painter I rather liked the count

. .

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Where did you go with him ?
Oh everywhere,
He just brought me here no w . .

Off ered me ten thousand dollars to go to B iar r itz with .

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him . How much is that in p ounds ? -

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Around two thousand ”

Lot of money I told him I couldn t do it He w

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as. .

awfully nice about it Told him I knew too many peo .

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ple in Biarritz .

Brett laughed .

“
I say you are Slow on the u p take sh e Said I had
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dn fl l‘
fi
D

4 That ’
S better . Ver y fun ny ,
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Brett d
sa Th en he
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wanted me to go to Cannes with him Told him I knew .

too many people in Cannes Monte C arlo Told him I . .

knew too many people in Monte Carlo Told him I .

knew too many people everywhere Qu ite true, too So . .

”
I asked him to bring me here .

She looked at me her hand on the table her glass , ,

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“ ’ “
raised Don t look like that sh e said
. Told him I ,
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was in love with you True too .D on t look like that .

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He was damn ni ce about it Wants to driv e us out to .

di nner to morrow night Like to go ?

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hy not ?
“
I d be tter go now
’
.

Why ?
Just wanted to see you Damned silly idea Wan t . .

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to get dressed and come down ? He s got the car just
”
up th e street .

“
The count ?

Zelli s
’
Got it all at . Dozen bottles of Mumms . Tempt
”
y ou ?
“ “
I have to work in the morning I said I m too , .
’

”
far behind you now to catch up and be any fun .

’”
Don t be an ass .

”
C an t do it ’
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Right Send him a tender message ?

.

”
Anything Absolutely . .

”
Good night darling ,
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Don t be sentimental .

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You make me ill .

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Brett shiver ed I d better .
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kissed again on the stairs and as I called h m

cor don the concierge muttered something behind h

door I went back u p stai rs an d from the o pen window

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at

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atched Brett walking up the street to the big limousine

dr awn up to the curb under the arc light S h e go t in
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and it started off I turned around On the table was

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md a glass half full o f brandy and soda

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out to the kit chen and poured th e half

full glass down the Sink I turned o ff the gas in the
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dining room kicked off my slippers sitting o n the bed l

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and go t into bed This was Brett that I had fel t lik e
.
,

crying abo ut Then

. I thought of h e r walking up the
street and stepping into the car as I h ad last seen her
, ,

of course in a little while I felt like hell again “

?
ru e So u fl and brioche It was a fine morti
ot fo r co fiee .

ing The horse chestnut tr ees in the Luxembourg gar

.
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ing feeling of a hot day I r ead the papers with the cofiee
.

and then smoked a cigarette The fl ower women wer e .

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coming up from the mar ket and arranging their daily

st ock Students went by going up to the law school o r
.
,

down to the Sorbonne The Boulevard was busy with .

tra ins and people going to work I got on an S bus and .

r ode down to the Madeleine standi ng on the back plat ,

for m From the Madeleine I walked alon g th e Boule

'

des Capucines to the Opera and up to my offi ce ,

.

“
th the boxer toys I stepped aside to avoid walking
‘

m
ic the thread with whi ch his girl assistant manipulated
{he bo xers . She was standing looking away the thread ,

imfh er folded hands The man was urgin g two tourists

.

to buy Three more tourists had stopped an d wer e

.

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a roller that printed the name CINZANO on the side
walk in damp l etters All along people were going to.

ork It felt pleasant to be going to work I walked

. .

across the avenue and turned in to my offi ce .

Up stairs in the offi ce I read the French morning

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papers smoked and then sat at the typewriter and got

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o ff a good morning s work At eleven o clock I went .

over to the Quai d Or say in a taxi and went in an d sat

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diplomat in horn rimmed spectacles talked and answer ed

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cil was in Lyons making a speech or rather he was on , ,

th emselves talk and there were a couple of questions ,

asked by news service men wh o wanted to know the

a ns w ers .
There was n o news I Shar ed a taxi b ack from .

’
the Quai d Or say with Woolsey and Krum .

What do you do nights Jake ? asked Krum

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never see you around .

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Oh I m over in the Quarter
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I m coming over som e night Th e Dingo Tha t s
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the gre at place is n t it ?
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Yes That or this new dive The Select
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I ve meant to get over said Krum You kno ,
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ith a wif e and kids

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h o w it is though
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Playing any tennis ? Woolsey asked .

ell n o said Krum

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I can t say I ve playe
’’
d any .
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this year I ve tried to get away but Sundays it s always

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r ained and the courts are so damn ed crowded
,
.

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The Englishmen all have Saturday o fi oolsey ,

“Lucky beggars said Krum Well I ll tell you ”

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Some day I m not going to be working fo r an agency

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Then I ll have plentyt of time to get ou t in th e country
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Tha t s th e thm gtoN w
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o Live “o u t in the country
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have a Iittfce car
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I ve h een thinking some about getting a car nex t
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year

I ban ged On the glass The ch au fieu r s topped” .

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Here s my Stl éet I said
’
C ome in and have a dr ink
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Thanks old m an Krum Said Woolsey shook his
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head .I ve got to file that line he got off this mor ning
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You Jake he said
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This is on me
r e cr az y ,
r

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. .

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I t s all on the offi ce anyway
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“ ”
Nope I want to get it . .

I waved good by Krum put his head out -

See you . .

at the lunch on Wednesday ”

.

“ ”
You bet .

I went to the ofiice in the elevator Robert Cohn was .

“ “
waiting for me ”
Hello Jake he said Going out to
.
, ,
.

Yes Let me see if there is anything new

. .

Where will we eat ?

I was l ooking over my desk . Where do you want to

”
eat ?
“ ’ ’
How about Wetzel s ? They ve got good hors '

’
In the restaurant we ordered hors d oeuvres and beer
,
.

The sommelier brought th e beer tall beaded on the out

’

, ,

side h i the steins and cold There were a dozen diff er ent
,
.

Have any fun last night ? I asked .

”
1 don t think
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No . so .

\
How s the writin g going ? l/
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Rotten I can t get this second book going ’

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That happens to ev erybody .

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Oh I m sure of that It gets me worried thou gh
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A
, ,
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Thought any more about going to S outh merica ?
”
I mean that .

’
ell why don t you start off
,

Frances .

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Well I said take her with you
, ,
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She wouldn t like it Th at isn t the sort of thing she

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Tell her to go to hell .
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ell I sai d ,
She s done it twice .
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fi l don t b eliev e it ’
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Well I said don t ask me a lot of fool questions

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,
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if you don t like the answers

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I didn t ask you that ’
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You asked me what I knew about Brett Ashley

“ I didn t ask ou to insult her
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’
y .

V Oh
‘
o t hell ”
g o .

He Stood up from the table his face white and stood ,

ther e whit e an d angry behind the little plates of liof s

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Sit down
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I said Don t be a fool
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You ve got to take that back .

I never heard of B rett Ashley .

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Oh don t go to hell I Said Stick around We re ’
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just starting lunch .

Cohn smiled again and sa t down He seemed glad to . .

sit down What the hell would he have done if he hadn t

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Sat down ? You say such damned insulting things ,
”
Jake .

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I know it Cohn said You re really about the
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best friend I have Jake ,

.

God help you I th ou gh t Forget what I said I,

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said out loud I m sorry . .

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f It s all r igh t It s fin e I was just so r e for
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Good Let s get som ethin g else to

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bring up Brett again but I held hi m ,

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Ar five o clock I was in the Hotel Crillon waitin g f or

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Brett She was not there so I sat down and wrote some
.
,

letters They were not v ery good letters bu t I hoped

.

their be ing on Crillon stationery would help them Brett .

did not t u rn up so about quarter to Six I went down to

,

the bar and had a Jack Rose with George t h e barm an .

Brett h ad n o t been in the bar either and so I looked for ,

her up stairs on my way out and took a taxi to the

w
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Café Select Crossing the Seine I sa a string of barges

.

being towed empty down the current riding high th e , ,

bargemen at the sweeps as they came toward the bridge .

The river looked nice It was always pleasant crossing

.

bridges in Paris .

The taxi rou nded the statue of the inventor of the

semaphore engaged in doing same and turned up the ,

Boulev ard R aspail and I sat back to let that part of

,

the ride pass Th e Boulevard R aspail always made dull

.

r idi ng It was like a certain stretch on the P L M be

. . . .

tween Fontainebleau and Montereau that always made

me feel bored and dead and d u ll until it was over I
'

suppose it is some association of ideas that m akes those

dead places in a journey There are oth .

P aris as ugly as the Boulevard R aspail It .

do not mind walking down at all But I canno t stand to .

r ide along it
\ Perhaps I had read Something abo izt it
.

That was the way Robert Cohn was about a l of l

P a r is I wondered where Cohn go t that incapaci ty to

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en joy P Mencken hates

P aris I ,
get their likes and
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The taxi stopped in front of the R otonde No m atter .
,

what caf é in Mon tparnasse you ask a taxi driver to

.
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take you to the Roton de . Ten years from now it .

walked past th e sad tables of the Rotonde to the

saucers
“ “ ’ ”
Sit down said Harvey I v e been looking for you
, , .

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Wh at s the matter ?
’

Nothin g ? Just looking for you)?

Been out to the races ?
No N o t
.

I don t know I m through with them I m ahsa

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.
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e

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lu tely through with them .

He leaned forward and looked me in the eye .

“ ”
Do you want to know something, Jake?
”
Yes .

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I hav en t had anything to eat for five days .

I figured rapidly back in my mind It was th r ee days .

won two hundred francs from m e ,

the N ewYork Bar .

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r ? 5
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come he paused
, 1 .

When I m like this I just

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to stay in my own room I n :
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H
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T There 3 no h t
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ave a drink
“ ” q y . .

B etter eat .

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or not .

Yes . Why ?

He s all right He says some pretty funny things

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. .

Last tim e I h ad dinner with him we talked about H o fien

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heimer The trouble is he said he s a garter sn apper ’ ’ ’
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That s n o t bad
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That s not bad ’
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” “
H e s written
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He s through now Harv ey went on , .

about all th e things he knows and now he s on all the

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“ 9

I guess he s all ’
ri ght ,
I said : I just can t rea
d
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Oh nobody r eads him now Har v ey said except ”

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that used to read the Alexander Hamilton

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I said That was a good thing too 1
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3“

g
Sure said Harvey So we sat and thought de iy
for a while .

“
Have another port ?
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All r ight
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said ,
“
Ther e Comes Cohn I said Ro bert Cohn was , .

ng t h e str eet
i .

That moron said Harvey Cohn came up to , .

”
Hello you bums, he said
, .

“
”
Hello Robert Harv ey :said
, , . I. was just ”

Jake here that you re a mor on f ’

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hat do you
TH E S U N A L S O

Tell us right ofi Don t think What would you

r ather do if you could do anything you wan ted ?
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Coh n started to consider .

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Don t th m k B r m g 1t n gh t out f
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I don t know Cohn said Wha t s it all abou t
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,

I mean what wo u ld you ra ther do What comes into

. .

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you r head first N o matter how Silly it is
. .

“ ’ “ ’
I don t know Cohn said I think I d rath er play
,
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now .

“ ’
I misjudged you Harvey said Yo u re not a ,
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moron You r e only a case o f arrested developmen t 1
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You re awf ully funny Harvey Cohn said
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Some , ,
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Harvey Ston e laughed You think so They wen t , . .
’

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thou gh Because it wouldn t make any difference to
.

’ ”
me I m n o t a fighter
. .

“ ”
It would make a diff erence to you if anybody did it .

’ ’
No it wou ldn t That s where y ou make your big
,
.

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mistake Because you re n o t intelligent
.
f
.

“ ”
Cut it ou t about m e .

said Harvey It doesn t make any difien .

’

”
You don t mean anything to me
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“ ”
Harvey I said Have another porto , . .

“
said I m going up the street and eat
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’
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street through the taxis small heavy slowly , , ,

himself in the traffic .

”
always gets me sore Cohn said I can t stand ,
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’

“
I said . I m fon d of him
’
. You don t ’
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I know it Cohn said He just ge ts on my ner ves
, . .

Write this afternoon ?

’
N o I could n t get it going It s harder to do than
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my first book I m having a hard time handling it
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T h e sor t of healthy conceit that he h ad when he r e
turned from Am erica early in the spring was gone .

Then he had bee n sure o f his work only with these per ,

longings fo r adventure N ow the .

gone S omehow I feel I have n o t shown

.

clearly The reason is that until he fell in love with

. ,

Brett I never hea r d him make one remark that would ,

,

in any way detach him from other people He was nice

,
.

to watch o n the tennis court he had a good body and

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, ,

he kept it in Shape ; he handled his ca r ds well at

bridge and he had a funny sort o f undergraduate quality
,

If he were in a crowd nothing h e said stood .

to be called polo shirts at sch od ,

still but he was no t professio n ,

ally youthful I do not be lieve he thought about Ms

.

d oth es much Externally he had been for m éd at Pr in ce

”

ton Internally he had been moulded by the two wom en

.

who had trained him He had a nice b oyish sor t of .

,

cheerfuln ess that had never been trained o u t of him and ,

I probab ly have n o t brought it out He loved to w in at .

tennis He probably loved to win as much as

.

for instance On the other hand he was not

.
,

being be aten When he fell in love wi.

went all to pieces .

chance with him He was very nice .

Anyhow we were Sittin g on the terrace of

,

Select and Harvey Stone had just crossed the

,
“ ”
Come o n up to the Lilas I said ,
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I have a date .

“What ti me ? 0

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do wn at a table A boy came up with the P ar is Tim es,
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and I bought one an d open ed it .

“ ’
What s the matter Frances ? ,
” “
Oh nothing She said
,
except that he wants t o
, ,
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lea v e me .

“
How do you m ean ?
“
Oh he told every one that we were going to be mar
,

ried and I told my mother and ev er y one an d now he

, ,
’ ”
doesn t want to do it .

“ ”
What s the matter ? ’

“
H e s decided he hasn t liv ed enough I knew it
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in
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would happen when he wen t to New Yo r k

'

She looked up v ery bright eyed and t rying to talk

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I wouldn t marry h im if he doesn t want to Of
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cou rse I wo uldn t I wouldn t marry him n ow for any

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W
b fl i ih g But it does seem to me to be a little late now
.
,

after we ve waited three years and I ve just gotten m y

’ ’
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”
divorce?

were going to celebrate so and instead we v e

e ,
’

just had Scenes It s so childish We h ave dr e adfu l

” ’
. .

Scenes and he cries and be gs me to be reasonable but

, ,
”
h e says he just can t do it
’

“
.

It s rotten luck
’
.

E I Should say it is rott

“
ck I ve wasted two years .
’

and a half o n him now I don t know now if any .

’

man will ever

the old on es that wanted to

settle dOwn wer e crazy about me N ow I tthm k I
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w
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could get anybody .

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Sur e yo u could marry any
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No I don t believe it And I m fond
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 THE SUN A L S O R I SE S

“
She looke d at me very brightly I never liked chil ”

‘
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’
dren much but I don t want to think I ll never have
,
’

He s got children
’
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Oh yes He s got children and he s got money and

,
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,
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,
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he s got a rich mother and he s written a book and no , ,

body will publish my stuff , nobody at all It isn t bad

’
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either An d I haven t got any money at all I could hav e

.
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.
”
had alimony but I got the divorce the quickest way
,
.

She looked at me again v ery br ightly .

’ ’
It isn t r ight It s my own fault and it s not too
.
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, .

I ought to have known better And when I tell him he .

j
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ust cries and says he can t marry Why can t he m a rr y ? .

I d be a good wife I m easy to ge t along with I leave

’ ’
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him alone It doesn t do y good ’

” K
. .

“ ’
It s a rotten shame .

Yes it is a rotten Shame B u t th a e s no use

, .
‘ ’

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about it is there ? C ome on let s go back to the caf e
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An d of course there isn t an ythihg I can
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N o Just don t 1et him know I talked to you I

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know wh at he wants Now fo r the first time sh e dropped .

“
her br igh t terribly cheerful manner
, He wants to go . .

alone and be there when his book ,

.

comes out so when a lot of M e

”
hat h e wants .

“ ’
Maybe they won t I don t think h e s that ’ ’

way .

‘
f You do n t
’
know him like I do Jake ,
. That s what ’

doesn t want to mar ry He wan ts te hav e a big tr ium ph

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this f all all by him self J . »

so T H E SUN AL S O R I S E S
Want to go back to the cafe?
Yes Come on . .

We got up fro m the table they had never br ou ght —

us a dr ink and started across the street towar d the

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Select where Cohn sat smilin g at us from behind the

,
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marble topped table -

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Well what are you smiling at ? Frances asked him
,
.

”
Feel pre tty happy ?
“
I was sm iling at you and Jake with your secrets .

’
Oh what I ve told Jake isn t any secret Everybody
,
’
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will know it soon enough I only wanted to give Jake .

What was it ? About your going to England ?

Yes abo ut my gom g to En gland Oh Jake ! I for
,
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,
” ’

g ot to t ell y o u I m going to England . .

” ’
Isn t that fine !
’ ’
Yes that s the way it s done in the very best fam
,

ilies Robert s sending me He s going to giv e me two

’ ’
. .

’
hun dred pounds and then I m going to visit fr iends .

Won t it be lovely ? The friends don t know about it ,

’ ’

”
yet .

She turned to Coh n an d smiled at him ; He was not

’
weren t yo u Robert ? But I made him give me two
,
”

hu ndred He s really very generous Aren t you Rob

.
’
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’
,
”
er t?
I do n o t know h ow people could say such terrible
things to Robe rt Cohn There ar e people to whom you
‘

could n o t say insulting thin gs They give you a feeling .

that the world would be destroyed would actually be ,

Bu t here was Cohn taking it all . Here it was all m mg ,

 TH E S UN ALS O RIS ES 51

stop it And this was friendly joking to what

to tr y and .

went on later .

“ ”
How can you say such things Frances ? Cohn in ,

ter r u pted .

“
_ Listen to him I m going to Engl and I m going to
.
’
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’

’
v isit friends E ver visit friends that didn t want you ?
.

Oh they ll have to take me all right Ho w do you do

,
’ ‘
,
.
,
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my dear ? Such a long time since we ve seen you And .

how is your dear mother ? Yes how is my dear mothe r ? ’

,

She put all her m On ey into French war bonds Yes she .
,

did Probably th e only person in the world that did

. .

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And what abdu t Robert ? or else very careful t alking ’

‘
around Robert You must be most careful n o t to m en
.

tion him my dear ; Poor Frances has had a most nu ~

,
’ ’ ’
fortunate experience Won t it be fun Robe rt ? Don t .
,
”
you think it will be fun Jake ? ,

She turned to me with that terribly bright smile It .

where are you going to be R obert ? It s my ,

’

ow n f ault all right Perfectly

,
my own fault . When I .

made you get rid of your little secretary on the maga

’
zine I ought to have known you d get rid of me the
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’
same way Jake doesn t know about that Should I
. .

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tell him ?
’
Shut up Frances for God s sake
, ,
.

’
Yes I ll tell him Robert had a little secretary on the
,
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magazine Just the sweetest little thing in the world

.
,

and he thought I was pretty wonderful too So I made ,

.

get rid of her and he had brought h er to Province

,

from Carmel wh en he moved the magazin e and “

he didn t even pay her fare back to the coast All to

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thought I was pretty fin e then Didn t ,
.
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“Yo u i m ustn t
’
misunderstand Jake it was absolu tely , ,

ing at all really It was just that she was so nice And
,
. .

he did that just to please me Well I suppose that we .

,

that live by the sword shall per ish by the sword Isn t .
’

that literary though ? You want to remember that for

,

you r nex t book Robert ,

.

book Aren t yo u Robert ? That s why he s leavin g

’ ’ ’ '

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W
H e s decided I don t film well You see he was so
’ ’
me . .
,
a

busy all th e tim e? that we were living together writing

'

,
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on this book that he doesn t remember any t hin g about
,

us So now h e s going out and get some new material

.
’
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ell I hope he gets som ething frightfully interesting

’

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,
“
Listen Robert dear Let m e tell you som e thing
, , .
“
.

Yo u won t mind will you ? Don t have scenes with your

’ ’
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young ladi e s Try n o t to Because you can.t ha v e scenes .

’

withou t crying and then you pity yourself so m uch you

,
’

can t rem em ber what the other person s said You ll

’ ‘ ’
.
’

nev er be able t o remember any conversations that way .

Just try and be calm I know it s aw q y har d But r e .

’
.

’
mem ber it s fo r literature ,
’
.

without a pro test All for literature We mus t all help . .

young wr i ters
not a thirty

W
four Still I su ppose th at is young fo r a great writer:
’

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,

Look at Har dy Look at Anatole France He just died . .

a little hile ago Robert doesn t think h e s any good .

’ ’
,

though ? Some of his French friends told him He does ;

”

n t read French ver y well himself He wasn t a good

’ ’
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writer like you ar e was he Robert ? D o you think h e

i
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‘

m
y o u

pose he said to his mistresses when he wouldn t ’

m
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T H E S UN A L S O RIS ES 53 s

them ? I wonder if he cried too ? Oh , ,

I ve just thought
’

I k now the real reason why Robert won t marry me ’

Jake It s just come to me Th ey ve sent it to me in a

’ ’
’
‘

. .

v ision in the C a fe Select : Isn t it m ystié ?

’
Some day '

they ’ll put a tablet up li k e at Lourdes D o yo u want . .

sim ple I wonder .

you see Robert s “ -

’
,

always wanted to have and if he doesn t ’

marry me why then he s had

, ,
She was his mistress ’

for over two years See how i And if he mar ries

“

d
me like he s al ways prom i sed he would that would be
,
’
,
’
the end of all the romance Don t yo u think that s .
’

bright of me to figure that out ? It s true too Look at ’

,
.

’ ”
him and see if it s not Where are you going Jake ?
‘
.

r “ ’
,

I ve got to go in and see Harvey Stone a minute .

like that ?
As I stood against the bar looking o u trI co uld see them
’

V '

through the window Frances was talkin g on to him

.
,

sm iling brightly looking into his face each tim e she

,
“ ”
asked : Isn t it so Robert ? Or maybe sh e did n o t ask
’
,

that now Perhaps she said something else I told the

.
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barman I did n o t want anyth ing to drink and went ou t

through the side door As I went out th e d oor I looked
back throu gh the two thicknesses of glass and sawthem
.

sitting there She was still talking to him I went down

. .

a side street to the Boulevard R aspail A tam came along .

and I got in and gave th e dr i v er the address o f my flat .

 CHAPTER VII
As I star ted up the stairs the concie rge knocked on
the glass o f the doo r o f her lodge and as I stopped she
'

,
,

came out She had some letters and a telegram

. .

“
Here is the post And there was a lady here to see
.

Did sh e leave a card ?

No She was with a gentleman It was the one who
. .

was here last night In the en d I find she is very

"

m ce .

“
Was she with a friend of mine ?
I don t know He was never here before He was
’
. .

v er y large Very very large She was very nice Very

.
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,
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,

very nice “ Last night sh e was perhaps a littl e She , ,

p u t her head on one hand and rocked it up and down .

“ ’
I ll speak perfectly frankly Monsieur Barnes Last , .

night I fo u hd her not so gentille Last night I formed an .

o ther idea of her But listen to what I tell you She is

. .

t res ,
tres gentille She is of very good family It is a
. .

thing you can see .

“
They did n o t lea v e any word ?
.

“
Yes They said they would be back in an hour
. .

“
Send them up when they com e .

“
Yes Monsieur Barnes An d that lady that lady
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is some one An eccentric perhaps but quelqu une
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une

concierge b efore sh e became a concier ge had

w
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o n ed a drink selling co ncession at the Paris race course s

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Her life work lay in the pelou se but sh e kep t an eye on

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the p eople of the pesage and sh e took gr eat pride in tall ,

 56 , TH E S UN AL S O RI S E S
’
You don t remember anything about a date with
”
me at the Crillon ?
.

“
N o Did we have one ? I must have been blind
.

”
You wer e quite drunk my dear said the count , , .

’
Wasn t I though ? And the count s been a brick, ’

absolutely .

“
You ve go t hell s own drag with the concierge now
’ ’
.

I ou gh t to have Gave her two hundred francs ”

. .

D on t be a damned foo
’

”
H is She said and nodded at th e count
, , .

I thought we ought to give her a little something for

”
night It was very late . .

H e s wo n der f Brett said He rem embers ever y

’
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thing that s happened
’
.

“
So do you my dear ,
.

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K Fan cy said Brett
’
Who d want to ? I say Jake
,
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, ,
”
do we get a drink ?
“
You get it while I go in and dress .

Rather .

While I dr essed I heard B rett put down glasses an d ;

then a Siphon and then heard them talking I dressed ,

.

slowly Sitting o n the bed I felt tired and pretty rotten

,
. .

Brett came in the room a glass in her hand ;an d sat on , ,

the bed .

“ ’
What s the matter darling ? Do you feel rocky ? ,

t I love yo u so much ,
.

“ “
D ar lin g sh e said Then : Do want me to
Q ”
,
.

send him away ?

“ ’
No He s nice . .

I ll sen d him away

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N o don t ,
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Yes I ll send him away

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ca n t just lik e that
’

You
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C an t I thou gh ? You stay here H e s mad about

’
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’

”
me I tell yo u
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of the room I lay face down o n th e .

a bad time I heard .

She stroked m y head

'

to him ? I was lyin g with my

her I di d n o t want to see her
.

Sent him for cham pagne He loves to go for cham

.

”
pagne .

Then later : Do you f eel better darling ? Is the head

any better ? ” y? ,

“ ’ ’
It s be tter .

Lie quiet He s gone to the other side o f town

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Brett ? Couldn t we ’ “

t
o

3m ?
2 “

a while
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if y
_
ou like . But I -

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I m goin g away
back .
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W are you going ?
h en
Soon as I can
ere ?
TH E

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San Sebastian .

’ w
t we go together ?
“
No That would be a hell of an idea after we djust
.
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talked it out .

“
We never agreed .

’
Oh you know as well as I do Don t be obstinate
,
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,

“ ’ ’
sure I said I know you re right I m just
,
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low and wh en I m low I talk like a foo

, ‘
’

I sat up leaned over found my shoes beside the bed

, ,

and put them on I stood up . .

’
Don t look like that darling ,
.

5 Oh don t be a fool l m going awa

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’ ’
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y to morrow .
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To morrow
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’
Yes Didn t I say so ? I am
. .

Let s have a drink then Ta c count will be back

’
, . .

Yes He should be back You know h e s ex tr aor

. .
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din ar y abo ut buying champagne It means any amount .

”
to him .

We went int o the dining room I took u p th e brandy -

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bottle and poured Brett a drink and on e for myself .

There was a ring at the bell pull I went to t h e door and -

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there was the count Behind him was the chau fieu r .

Where Should I have him put it Sir ? aske d the , ,

count .

“
In the kitchen Brett said ,
.

”
P u t it in there Henry the count , ,

go d o wn and get the He stoo d looking af ter the

“
basket inside the k it chen door I think you ll find that s .
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very good wine he said I know we don t ,
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of a chance t o judge good wine in the States .

I got this from a friend o f mine that s in the business ’

.

W
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Oh you always have some o n e in the trade B rett
, ,

Th fellow raises the grapes He s got thousands oi ’

s . .

”
acr es of them .

“ ’
hat s his name ? asked Brett Veuve Cliquot ? .

” “ ” ’
No said the count
,
Mumms He s a bar o n . .
,
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Isn t it wonderful Said Brett
’
We all have titles
6
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haven t you a ti tle Jake ? ,
”
I assure you sir th e cou n t put his hand on my , ,
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arm “
. It never does a man any good Most of the time Q .

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it costs yo u money .

“ ”
Oh I don t know It s damned useful sometimes
,
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’
,

Brett said .

“
I v e never known it to do me any good
’
.

You haven t used it properly I ve had hell s o wn

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.
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amount of credit on mine .

“ ” “
Do sit down count I said Let me take that , ,
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count was lookin g at Brett across the table under

t Sh e was smoking a cigarette and fig king
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e r ug She saw me notice it I say s
f
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,
’
Jake I don t want to ruin you r rugs Can t yo u give
,
’
.

a chap an ash tray ? -

I found some ash trays an d spread them aroun d -

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The chau fiem came up with a bucket full o f salted ice .

“ ”
Put two bottles in it Henry the coun t called , ,
.

“
Anything else Sir ? ,

No Wai t down in the car

. He turn ed to Brett .

and to me We ll want to ride out to the Bois for

.
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chnm r i fi
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If you like Bret t said ’
I couldn t eat a thing
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I always like a good meal said the count , .

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Should I bring the wi ne in sir ? asked the chauf
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,

Yes Brin g it in Henry sai d the count He took

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, , .

out a heavy pigskin cigar case and ofier ed it to me -

.

“ ”
Like to tr y a real American cigar ?
“ ” “
Thanks I said I ll finish the cigarette
,
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.

He cut off the end of his cigar with a gold cutter he

wore on on e end of his watch chain -
.

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I like a cigar to really d raw said the count Half , .

”
the cigars you smoke don t dr aw ’
.

He lit th e cigar puffed at it looking across the table

, ,

<3
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at Brett And when you re divorced Lady Ashley
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, ,
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then you won t have a title .

“ ”
No What a pity
. .

No said the count

, You don t n eed a title You .
’
.

t of you .

the count blew a clou d of

“
N ice of you ,
said Brett . Mummy would
C ouldn ’
t you e te i t ou t, an d I ll send it in
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4 “ ’
I d tell her too , ,
Im ’
n ot
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joking

enemies That s what I always say ;

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You r e right Brett said
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You re terribly right
,
.
’
.

I always joke people and I haven t a frien d In th eswor ld ’

.

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Except Jake here .

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You don t joke him
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That s it ’
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Do you , now? asked the count DOyou joke .

him z u }
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Brett looked at me and wrinkled up the corner s of her

’
No sh e said
,
I wouldn t joke him
. .

’
See said the count
,
You don t j oke him . .

” “
This is a hell of a dull talk Brett said How about 6 ,
.

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some of that champagne ?
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the shiny bucket It isn t cold yet You re alway ’ ’

é
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,
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drinking my dear Why don t you just talk ?
,
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’
I ve talked too ruddy much I ve talked mysok all
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out to Jake .

“
I should like to hear you really talk my dear When , .

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yo u talk to me you never fi nish your sentences at all :
.

“
Leave em for yo u to finish Let any one finish them
’
.

”
as they like .

“ ”
It is a very inter esting system th e count reached ,
“
down and gave the bottles a twirl Still I would like C
”
to hear you talk some time .

“ ’ ”
Isn t he a fool ? Brett asked
” “
Now the count brought up a bottle
,
I think this .

”
is cool .

I brought a towel and he wiped the bottle dry and

“
held it up I lik e to drin k champagne from magnums
. .

’
The wine is better but it would hav e been too hard to *

”
cool. He held the bottle looking at it I put out the , .

”
I Say You m ight open it Brett suggested
.
, .

“ ” ’
Yes , m y dear Now I ll open it. .

It was amazing champagne .

“ ” “
I say that is wine Br ett held up her gl ass
,
We .

‘
ug o toast something Here s to ’
o t t .

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This wine is too good for toast drinking m y dea —
, n

You don up with a wine like

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f -

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You ou gh t to write a book on wines count I said

M r E am es answer ed the count all I w
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é .
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ant out of ,
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wines is to enjoy them .

“
Let s enjoy a little more of this B rett pushed her
’
,

glass forward The count poured v ery car efully

. There .
,

Drunk ? Drunk ?
C M y dear you are charming when you are drunk
‘
.
,
”
Listen to the man .

“
full She .

was sober .

“
Yes my dear I have b een ar o u n d very much I
,
. , .

”
have been around a very great deal .

“ ” ’
Drink your wine said Brett We ve all been
,
.

around I dare say Jake here has seen as mu ch as you

.

My dear I am sur e Mr Barn es has seen a lo t Don t

,
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think I don t think so sir I have seen a lo t to o

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Of course yo u have m y dear Brett said I was
, ,
.

”
o nly r agsin g
“
I have been In seven wars and four revolutions the ,

”
Soldiering ? Brett asked
Sometimes my dear And Ihave got arrow wo unds
.

. .
,
”
Have you ever Seen arrow wou nds ?
“ ’ ”
Let s have a look at them .

The count stood up unbuttoned his vest an d opened, ,

and stood
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; h is chest black ,

bulging un der the light .

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c ount l eft the basket in my kitchen We dined at a .

r estaur an t in the Bo is It was a good dinner Fodd had . .

’
an excellent place in the count s values So did wine . .

The count was in fin e form during the meal So was .

B rett It was a good party

. .

W
“ ”
Where would you like to go ? asked the count after
dinner We were the only people left in the res taurant
. .

The two waiters were standin g over against the door

W
.

They wanted to go home .

“ ”
e m igh t go up on the hill Brett said Haven t ,
.
’

e had a splendid party

_

The count was beaming He was v ery happy . .

” don t y on get “ ma m ed you two ? ,

“
We have our career s Brett said
.

Come on : Let s ’

8
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,

Have another brandy the count said , .

”
Get it on the hill .

”
N0 Hav e it here where it is qui et
. .

“ ” “
I You and your quiet said Brett What is it m en ,
.

”
feel about quiet ?
”
We like it said the count Like you like noise
. . .

,
”
my dear .

’
All right said B rett Let s have one ,
. .

”
Sommelier l the count called .

”
Yes sir ,
.

What is the Oldest brandy you have ?

”
E ighteen eleven sir ,
.

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Bring us a bo ttle .

I say Don t be ostentatious Call him off Jake

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0 Listen my dear I get mor e value for my money in
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I got a houseful .

Finally we wen t up to Montmartre Inside Zelli s it .

’

was crowded smoky and noisy The music hi t you as

, ,
.

you went in B r ett and I danced It was so crowded we

. .

could barely move The nigger drummer waved at .

B rett We were caught in the jam dancing in one place

.
,

in front o f him .

Habre you ?
“
Th aats good .

He was all teeth and lips .

“ “
H e s a great friend of mine D am n
’
Brett said , .

”
good drumm er .

The music stopped and we started t oward the tabl e

where the count sat Then the music started agai n and .

we danced I looked at the count He was Sitting at the

. .

table smoking a cigar The music stopped again . .

“ ”
’
Let s go over .

and again we danced ; tight in the crowd .

’
You are a rotten dancer Jake Michael s the best
'

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,
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dancer I know .

’
He s go t his points .

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I like him I said I m damned fond of him
,
.
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“
fi
”
fl
’
m going to marry him Brett Funn y I , .

’ ”
haven t thought about him for a week 5 .

“ ’ ”
Don t you write him ?
Not I Never wr ite letters
. .

’ ”
I ll bet he writes to you .

Rather Damned good letters too

.
,
.

When ar e you going to get married ?

“
How do I know? AS soon as we can get th e dl v m fi
Michael ss tr ym gé o get his mother to put up for it
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Don t ’
be an ass . Michael s people hav e loads
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of

The music stopped We walked over to the table :

“

The count stood up .

“ ”
Very ni ce he said You looked v ery v er y
,
.
,
”
n ice .

“
Don t you dance count ? I asked
’
,
.

”
No I m too o ld
.
’
.

”
Oh come o ff it Brett said
, ,
.

My dear I would do it if I would enjo y it I enjoy

, .
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watch yo u dance
. .

“ ”
I ll dance again for you
’
Splendid Brett said ,
.

”
scim e time I say What about your little friend Zizi ?
. .
,

“Let me tell you I support that bo but I don t ’

y .
,
.

wan t to have him aroun

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He is rather hard .

“
You kn o w I thi nk that boy s got a future But per i
’ ’

gn“ally I don t want

.

Jake s rather the same way

’
.

”
He gives me the willys .

”
Well the count Shrugged his Shoulders
,
About his .

futur e yo u can t ever tell Anyhow his father was a gr eat

’
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,
”
friend of my father .

Come on Let s dance Br ett s aid

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,
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It was crowded and close .

“
Brett said I m so miserable ,
’
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“
W
It
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all gone
s

h a t s the m atter ?
I d on t know I just fwl
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’
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ted : You can t two time

ter r ibly
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ne
g

Want to go ?
.
I had the feeling as in a nightm are of it all being some

drummer Sang Softly

the .

’ “ ’
Le t s go ,
said Brett You don t mind . .

the drummer shouted an d grinned at

“
All right I said We got out from the crowd
,
. .

Brett went to the dressing room -

.

“ ”
B rett wants to go I said to the count He nodded ,
. .

’ ’
Does she ? That s fine You t ake the car I m going . .

to stay here for a while Mr Barnes , . .

We shook hands .

“
It was a wonderful time I said I wish you would ,
.

”
let me get this I took a note out of my pocket
. .

“ ”
Mr Barnes don t be ridiculous the count said
.
,
’
,
.

Brett came ov er with her wrap on She kissed the .

count and put her hand on his shoulder to keep him fr om

standing up As we went out the door I Ioo ked back
.

and there were three girls at his table We got into the .

big car Brett gave the ch au fieu r the address of h er

'

hotel
h
.

“
N0 don t come up she said at t e hotel She had
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’
,
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rung an d the door was unlatched .

W
R eaHYP
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N0 Please
. .

“
Good night Brett , ,
I said .
’
I m sorry you feel rot
ten
w
“
Good night Jake Good night darlin g I won t
,
.
,
.
’
see
”
you again We kissed standing
. at the door .

“ ”
k
’
me away e issed again
. Oh don t ! .
,
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68 T H EJSE N AL R r s ns
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the hotel The.

flat I gav e
.

“
twenty francs and he tou said : Good
”
n igh , Sir ,
t bell The doo r
.

open e d and I went —

t i
up s a r s went to bed .
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wonderful Then a card from Bud apest : Jake Budapest

.
,
“
is wonderful Then 31 go t a wi re : Back on .
,

Monday evening he turned up at the

h a
‘
is t x i stop and went to the window and

h e waved and started u p stairs carrying his bags I -

.

m et him o n the stairs and t ook o n e o f the b ags

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,
“
Well ”I Said I hear you had a wonderful tr ip
“
, ,
.

“
he said Budapest is absolutely won .

Ho w about Vienna ?
N ot so go od Jake Not so good
,
. . It seemed better
than i t was .

“
H owd o y ou mean ? I was getting glasses an d a

fi Tigh t
That s strange Better have a drink
’
. .

“
Bill rubbed his forehead ; Remarkable thing h e ,
“
said Don t know how it happened Suddenly it hap
’
. .

pened .

“
Last long ?
t d ays Jake Lasted jus four days
Eigh -

t ,
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‘

wner e did you go ?

"
’

D on t remember Wrot e you a post card Remem

’
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”
her that perfectly .

D O anything else ?
Not so sure Possible . .

”
Go o n Tell me abo ut it
‘

. .

Can t remember Tell you anything I could remem

’
.

Might remember
"
a little Bill Said
-
Remember ,
.
.

abo ut a priz e figh t Enormous V ien na p r iees

' ‘ '
-
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fight H ad a nig
.
ger in it R emem be r the ni r
gge p a s .
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73

Go on .

Wonderful nigger Looked like Tiger Flowers only .

,

four times as big All of a sudden everybody started to

throwthings N o t me N igger d just knocked l o cal
.

’
. .

boy down NIgger put up his glove Wanted to m ake

. .

a Speech Awful noble looking nigger Started to make

.
—
.

a Speech Then local white bo y hit him Then be knocked

. .

white boy cold Then everybo dy com m en ced to throw

'

’
chairs Nigger went home with u s in o u r car Couldn t
. .

get his clothes Wore my coat Remember the whole

. .

thing now Big spo . evening .

W
“ ”
What happened ? 4

Loaned the nigger some clothes and went around

with him to try and get his money Claimed nigger .

o wed th em m o n ey o n account of wrecking hall Wonder .

who translated ? as it me ?
”

“ ” ’
Probably it wasn t you .

You re right Wasn t meat all Was another fellow

’
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’
. .

Think we called him the local Harvar d man R emem

ber him n ow Studying music
.

. .

’
How d you come ou t
Not so good Jake Injusti ce ev ery where Prom o ter
,
. .

d aim ed nigger promised let local boy stay Cl aimed .

’
nigger viola ted contract Can t knock ou t Vienna boy .

‘ ‘
in Vienna My God Mister Gor ton said nigger I ’ '

.
, , ,

didn t do nothing in there for forty minutes but try an d

’

le t him stay That white bo y musta r uptured himself

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’

’
swinging at me I never did hit him . .

“
Did you get any money ?
N o money Jake All we could get was nigger s ’
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,
"

clo thes S omebody took his watch too Splendid nigger

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,
. .

Bigm istak e to have come to Vienna Not so good Jake

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a

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,

Not good ” .

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t became of the nigger ?

 74 T H E S ou A L S O R I S E S

Went back to Lives there Married : Got .

a family Going t . me a letter and send me the

him the right addr ess .

You probably did .

0
0 Well anyway let S eat said B ill U less you
’
,

fian t me to tell you some more travel stories n

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, ,

“ ’
Go on .

Let S eat ’
.

2
We went down st airs and o u t onto m e Boulevard St
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Michel In the warm June evening .

“ ”
Where will we go ?
Want to eat o n th e island ?
Sure .

We walked down th e Bo ulevard At the junct ure o f .

th e Rue D en ier t Ro chereau with the Boulevard is a

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statue o f two men in flowing rob es .

“ ”
I know who they are Bill eyes the monume n t
‘

. .

Gen tlem en who invented pharmacy : Don t try and ’

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100 1 me o n Paris .

We went on .

“
Here s a taxidermist
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B ill said Want to buy ’
,
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anythin g ? Nice s tuff ed dog?

” “
Come o n , I said You re pie eyed .
’
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.

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Pretty ni ce stu fied dogs Bill said Certainly ,
.

”
bright en up you r fiat .

“ ’
Come o n .

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Just o n e stu fied do g I can take em or leave em .
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fialon e But lis ten Jake Just on e stuff ed do g

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Come on .

Mean

We ll get one on the way back

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! TH E S U N 7g .

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All righ t Hav e it your Own way Road to hell paved :
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with unbought stu fied dogs Not my fault
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g . .

We went on .

“ ’
How d you feel that way about dogs so sudden ?
Always felt that way about dogs Always been a .

”
great lover of stuffed animals .

We stopped and had a drink .

“ ”
Certainly like to drink Bill said You O ught to , .

”
es Jake , .

u t a hu ndred and forty four ahead of mezi (7 -

Ought n o t to daunt you Never be daunted Secr et . .

o f my succes s Never been daunted . Never been daunted .

”
in public .

“
Where were yo u drinking ?
Stopped at the Crillon George made me a couple .

H
«
’
o f Jack Rose s George s a great man Know the secret
. .

”
o f his success ? Never been daunted
”

“
You ll be daunted after about t hree more pernods
’
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’
N o t in public If I be gin to feel daunted I ll go od
.

”
b y myself I m like a cat th at way
’
. .

“
When did you see Harvey Stone ?
At th e Crillon Harvey was just a little daunted
6
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H adn t eaten fo r three days Doesn t eat any mor e 2
’
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”
Just goes o ff like a cat Pret ty sad . .

Splendid Wish he wouldn t keep going

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o ff like a

cat though Makes me nervous

,
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What ll we do to night ?
’
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difi Only let s n o t get

’
er en ce . . , .

hard b iled ggs here

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go t any o e ? -

eggs h ere we wouldn t ’

the island to eat r

’

to have a regular
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“
Just a suggestion said Bill Want to start n ow?
,
.
”

”
Come on .

We started on again down the Boulevard A h or Se .

cab passed us Bill looked at it . .

See that horse cab ? Going to have that horse cab

%
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S tufi ed for you for Christmas Going to give all my .

”
I m a nature writer ’
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n e in it waved then banged for ,

th e driver to stop The taxi backed up to the curb In

. .

it was Brett .

“ ” “
Beautif ul l ady said Bill Goin g to kidnap us
,
. .

” “
H u llo l B rett said Hullo .

This is Bill Gorton Lady Ashley . .

“ ’
B rett smiled at Bill I say I m just back Haven t . .
’

bathed even Michael comes in to night

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“ ’
Good Come on and eat with us and we ll all go
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,
”
to meet him .

“
Must clean myself .

Oh rot ! Come on
,
.

Must bathe He doesn t get in till nine

.
’
.

Come and have a drink then before you bathe , ,

.

V ‘
Might do that Now you re not talking r o afy
:

.
’

Stop at the neares t bistr o I said

'

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We might as well Brett said .

I can t drink these rotten

’

“ ”
Closerie des Lilas .

Brett tu r iied to Bill .

“
u been in thi s pestilentia
” ”
Have yg
I

l city long ?

“How was Budapest ?

“
Wonderful Budapest was wonderful
. .

“ ”
1 Ask him about Vienn a .

“
Q

”
Vienna said B ill is a strange city
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V er y m uch like Paris Brett smiled at him w r in ,

”
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klin g the corners of her eyes .

“ ” “
Exactly Bill said
,
Very much like Paris at .

You have a good start .

Sitting out on the terraces of the Lilas Brett ordered

a whiskey and soda I took one too and Bill took ah , , ,

othe r pernod .

“
H o w ar e y o u Jake ? ,
” “ ” ’
Great I said , I ve had a good time . .

“
Brett looked at me I was a fool to go away she w ?
.
,
’
said. On e s an ass to c av e an s .

“
Did you ave a good ti me
Oh all right Interesting Not frightfully amusing
, . . .

”
See anybody ?
No hardly anybody I never went ou t ) ’

i é
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,

Didn t you swim ?

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No Didn t do a thingflfi
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‘’

”
Sounds like Vienna Bill said , .

Brett wrinkled up the co r n er s o f her eyes at him .

“
l

”
So that s the way it was in Vienna
’
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“ ”
It was like every thing in Vienna .

Brett smiled at him again .

“ 6 )
You ve a nice friend Jake
’

He s all right I said

’ ‘
e S a taxidermist
,
D A ,

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.

“
And be
dead g .

“
One more Brett said and I must run Do send
, , .

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the wai ter for a taxi .

There s a lin e of them Right out in front

’
. .

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Good .

We had the drink and put Brett into her taxi .

you re at the Select around ten Make him

’
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”
be ther e .
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We ll b e there Bill said The taxi started and
’
, .

Brett waved .

“ ”
Qui te a girl Bill said She s d amned nice Who s
,
.
’
.
’

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Michael ?
“
The man She ’s ga ng to marry
w
.

“
Well well Bill said
,
That s al ays just the stage
,
.
’

I meet anybody What ll I send them ? Think they d

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like a couple o f st u ff ed r ace horses ? -

We better eat .

IS She really Lady something o r other ? Bill asked

the taxi on our way down to the Ile Saint Louis .

“
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Cl ”
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Oh yes In the stud book an d everything

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Well well ”
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We ate dinner at Madame Le comte S restaurant on ’

the far Side o f the island It was crowd ed with Ameri .

cans and we had to stand up an d wait fo r a place Some

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one had put it in the American Women s Club list as a ’

quaint restauran t on the Paris quais as yet untouched

eaten at the restaurant in 1 9 1 8 an d ,

righ t after the armistice and Madame Lecomte made ,

a great fuss over seeing him .

“
5 Doesn t get us a table
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though B ill said Gran d , ,
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1 A
wom an ,

We had a good m eal a roast chicken new green beans , , ,

mashed potatoes a salad an d some apple pie an d , ,

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cheese .

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You ve go t th e wo r ld here all right B ill said to
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Lecomte She raised her hand Oh my. .

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God !
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You ll be rich’
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I hope so .

After the cofiee an d a fine we got the bill Chaim up ,

th e same as ever on a slate “ that was doubtless one of

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nd er neath the treeswas an S bu s r eady to start Music
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came ou t o f the door o f the Negre Joyeux Through the

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window o f the Caf é Aux Amateurs I saw the long zinc

bar Outside on the terrace working people were drink
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ing In the open kitchen of the Amateurs a girl was

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cooking potato chips in oil There was an iron pot of -

ste w The girl ladled some onto a plate for an Old man
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wh o stood holding a bottle of red wine in on e hand .

“
d t to have a drink ? ”

“ ” ’
I don t need it .

03 the Place Contrescarpe ,

walkin g along Sm ooth narrow streets with high old

hou ses on bo th Sides Some of th e houses jutted out .

toward the street Others were cut back We came onto . .

the Rue du Pot de Fer and followed it along until it

br ought u S to the rigid north an d south of the Rue Saint
Jacques and then walked south past Val de Gr ace set , ,

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back behind the cou rtyard and the iron fence to the ,

Boulevard du Port Royal .

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7 What do you want to do ? I asked Go up to the
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café and see Brett and Mike ?

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h y n ot ?
We walked along Port Royal until it became Mont
p rna se and then on past the Lilas i and ’
a s ,
Lav gn e s all , ,
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th e little cafés D am oy s cr ossed the street to , ,

ton de past its lights and tables to the Select

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Michael came toward us from the tables ,
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tanned and healthy looking -

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Hel lo Jake he said Hel lo ! Hel lo

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o ld lad ?
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You look very fi t Mike

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Oh I am I m frightfully fi t I ve
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Bill had gone into the bar He was standing talking .

with B ett wh o was sitting on a high stool her legs

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cr ossed She had n o s tockings on

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f
It s g e d to see you Jake
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Michael said Im a , , .
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little tight yo u know Amazing isn t it ? Did you see

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my nose ?
There was a patch of dried blood onthe bridge of his

An old lady s bags did that Mike said

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I reached ,
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up to help her with them and they fell on me

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Brett gestured at him from the bar with her cigar e t te

holder and wrin kled the corners of her eyes .

“ “ 6
An old l dy said Mike H e bags fell o n m e }
a ,
r . .

Let s go in and see Br ett I say sh e 1s a piece Yo u

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a lovely lady Bret t Where did you get that

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Chap bought it for hi e Don t you like it ? ”

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It s a d r eadfu l hat Do get a good hat
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Oh , we ve so much m oney now Brett said
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I say , .
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haven t you met Bill yet

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You ar e a lovely host ,

She turned to Mike This is Bill Gorton . This

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Aren t I though ? You know I met my ex par tner
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Bought me a drink I thought I m ight as

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a r e a lovely piece Don t you ’

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this nose?
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It s a lovely nose Go on point it at me
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have kept the man in S cotland

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Don t be i ndecent Michael Remember th er e are
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Ladi es at thi s bar ”

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Isn t sh e a lovely piece ? Don t you think so Jake ?

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There s a fight to night Bill said
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Like to go ? -

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Fight said Mike ho s fighting R
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Ledoux and somebody .

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V } He s very good Ledoux Mike said I d like to
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see it rather ,
he was making an eff ort to pull himself
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together but I can t go I have a date with this thing
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here I say Brett do get a new hat
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a.Brett p ulled the felt hat down far over o n e eye and
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smiled out from under it You two run along to th e .

fight I ll hav e to be takm g Mr Campbell home di

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r e ctly .

“
I m not tight
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Mike said . P erhaps just a li ttle .

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fight ,
Brett said . Mr Campbell s
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gettin g ditficu l
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Michael ?
“
I say you are a lovely piece ”
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We said good night I m sorry I can t go Mike .
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said : Brett laughed I l ooked back from the door . .

Mike had o n e hand on the bar and was leaning towar d

B re tt , talking Brett was lookin gat him qu ite coolly
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but the corners of her eyes were sm iling .

Do you want to
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Ou tside on the pavement I said .

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go to the fight ?
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Sure said Bill If we do n t have to walk
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was pretty excit d about his girl fr i n d I

e g ,

Well ,
s aid Bill .
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You can t blame him ’
su m a hell
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f a lot
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4 Ledoux Kid Francis fig

1m ; ht was the nigh t of the
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zo th of June It was a good fight The m o r nl ng after “

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th e figh t I had a letter from Robert Cohn written from

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Hendaye He was having a very quiet time he said

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, ,

bathing playing some golf and much bridge Hendaye

, .

had a splendid beach but he was anxious to start on ’

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the fish in g trip Wh en wo uld I be down ? If I would

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buy him a double tapered line he would pay me when -

I came down ;

That same morning I wrote Cohn from the office that

Bill and I would leave Paris o n the 2 5th unless I wired
him otherwise and would m eet him at Bayonne where
, ,

we could get a bu s over the mountains to Pamplona .

Th e same eyen in g about s even o clock I stopped in at

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the Select to see Michael and Brett They were no t there

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and I went over to the Dingo They were inside sitting .

Hello darling Brett pu t out her hand

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H ello ; Jak e Mike said I understand I was tight
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last night .

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Wer en t you though Brett said
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Disgraceful , ,
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Look said Mike when do you g o down to Spain ?
wo“uld you mind if we ”came down with yo u ?
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It would be grand .

You wouldn t mind really ? I ve been at Pamplona

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you know Brett s m adto go

. You r e sure we wou ldn t ’
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just be a bloody nuisance ?
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sa
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Do n t talk like a fool .

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I m a’
little tight you know I wouldn t ask you like ,
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this if I weren t You re sure you don t m ind ?

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Oh shut up M ichae
, Brett said How can the
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man say he d mind now ? I ll ask him later .

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B ut you don t mind do you ? ,

Don t ask that again unless you want to make me

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sore Bill and I go down on the morning o f the 2 5th
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By the way where is Bill ? Brett asked ,
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He s out at Chantilly dining with some people .

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He s a good chap .

S plen did chap psaid Mike

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He is you know , .
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You don t remember him Brett said ’
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I do Remember him perfectly Look Jake we ll

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come d own th e night o f the 2 5th Brett can t get up .

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in the morning .

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I ndeed not
If our money comes and you re sure you don t mind ’ ’
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It will come all right I ll see to that
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Tell me what tackle to send for .

Ge t two or three rods with reels and lines and some , ,

I won t fish Brett put in ’ ‘

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Get two rods then and Bill won t hav e to buy , ,
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one .

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Right said Mike I ll send a wire to the keeper
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it be splendid Brett sai d Spai n ! We will ,
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have fun .

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The 2 5th When is that ? .

S aturday .

We will have to get ready .

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I say said Mike I m going to th e barber s
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I must bathe sai d Brett Walk up to the ho tel ,
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with m e Jake Be a good c hap

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We have got the loveli est hotel Mike said I think , .

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it s a brothel 1
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We left our bags here at th e Dingo when we got in ,

going t o stay all night .

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I believe it s a brothel Mike said ’
And I Should , . 1 7
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know .

“ ”
Oh Shut it and go and get your hair cut
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Mike went out Brett and I sat on at the bar . .

“
Have another ?
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Migh t .

I needed that Brett said , .

We walked up the Rue Delambre .

“
I haven t seen you since I ve been back Brett sai d
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How ar e you Jake ?
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Fine
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Brett looked at me I say she said is Rober t 5
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Cohn going on this trip ?

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y es hy ?
D on t yo u
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think it will be a bit rough on him ?
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should it ? ’

went down to San Sebastian

We walked along .

“
hat did you for ?
say that
I do n t fifow hat w ould you like me to say ?
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fi

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o n g and turn ed a corner .

rather well too He gets a little dull "

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Does he ?
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I r ather thou ght it ould be good for him 550
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£1 Do n t be n asty ’
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I won t .

2gD idn t you really know ?

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I guess I didn t thm k ai m It
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No I said ,
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Do you think it will be too rough on him ?
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That s up to him I said ’
Tell him you re com ,
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ing He can always n o t come

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I ll write him and give him a chance to pull o u t of it
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I did n o t see Brett again until the night of

of June .

“
Did you hear from Cohn ?
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Rather H e s keen about it .
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My God
I thought it was rather odd myself 8 .
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Says he can t wai t to see me ’

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Does he think you re coming alone ?

Michael all an d
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He s wonderful .

Isn t he ? ’

They expected their money the nex t day .

r an ged to meet at P amplona They woul d go directly .

to San Sebas tian and take the train from there We . .

would all meet at the Montoya in Pamplona If they .

did n o t turn up on Monday at the latest we would go

o
n ahead up to Burguete in the m ountains to start ,

fishing There was a bus to B urguete I wrote out an

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itin erar y so they could follow us .

Bill and I took the morning train from the Car

d O r say It was a lovel y day n o t too h o t and the
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try was beautiful from the start We went back .

the diner and had breakfast Leaving .

asked the jcon du ctor for tickets for the

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Nothing until th e fif th .
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and now they re going down to Biarritz and Lourdes .

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g 33 So that s wh t they ’
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tans Bill said
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What part o f t h e States you boys from ?
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He s from Chicago
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Kansas City I said ,
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Yo u both going to Biarritz ?
N o We re going fishi ng in Spain
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Well I never cared for it myself There s plenty

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that do ou t where I come from though We got some ,

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of the best fishin g in the State of Montana I ve been .

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out with the boys but I never cared for it any , .

“
Mighty little fishi ng you did on th em trips his ,

He winked at us .

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You know h o w the ladies are If there s a jug goes .
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along or a
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case of beer they think it s hell and damna , ,

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That s the way men are his wife said to us She
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smoothed her comf ortable lap I v oted again st pr ohi .

bition to please him and because I like a little beer in ,

the ho use and then he talks that way It s a onder

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they ever find any one to m arry them .

“ ” “
Say said Bill do you know that gang o f Pilgrim
5qFather s have cornered the dining car until half past
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three this aft ernoon ?

“
H o w do you mean ? They can t do a thing lik e that
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You try and get seats .

Well mother it looks as though we better go back

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and get another breakfast .

Will you boys keep an eye on ou r things ?

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little while after they were gone a steward went
announcing the first service and pilgrims wi , ,

priests commenced filing down the corridor O u r friend

, .

and his family did n o t come back A waiter passed in .

the corridor with o u r sandwiches and th e bottle of

Chablis and we called him in
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You re going to work to day I said
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He nodded his head They start n o w at ten thirty .
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When do we eat ?
H uh ! When do I eat ?
He left two glasses for the bottle and we paid him for ,

the sandwiches and tipped h im .

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I ll get t he plates he said o r bring them with
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We a te the sandwiches and drank the Chablis an d .

watched th e coun tr y o t1 t o f the window The grain was

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j u st beginning to ripen and the fields were full o f poppies .

The pastureland was green and there were fine trees , ,

and sometimes big rivers and chateaux o ff in the trees .

At Tours we go t o ff and bought another bo ttle of wine ,

and when we go t back in the compartment the gentle

man from Montana and his wife and his so n Hube rt , ,

were sitting com f ortably .

“
IS there good swimming in Biarritz ? asked Huber t .

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That boy s just crazy till he can get in the water ,
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his mother said
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It s pretty har d on youngsters trav
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elling
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There s good swimming I said s But it s danger
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ous when it s r oug ’

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Did yo u g et a m eal ? Bill asked
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sure did We S et right there when they start ed

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to cor ri e in and they must have just th ou gh t we were in

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Fr ench ,
an d then they just sent thr ee of them back “
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fl thought we wer e snappers all right the m an

Th ey
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said It certainly Shows ydu the power of the Catholic
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Chur ch It s a pity yo u bo ys ain t Catholics You could

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get a meal then all right , ,

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T
. I am ”
I sai d That s
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w hat makes me so sore .
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Finally at a quarter past four we had lun ch Bill had . .

been rather difii cu lt at the last He buttonholed a priest .

who was coming back with o n e of the returning streams

do Protestants get a chance to eat father ?

us ,

t know anything about it Haven t you go t .

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t ickets ?
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enough to make a man join the Klan Bill said
It
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$
s ,
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13e priest looked back at him .

Inside the dining car the waiters served the fif th su c - ~

c essiv e table d h ote meal The waiter who served us

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the arms .

“
He must drink a lo t o f wine .

”
Or wear purple undershirts .

”
Let s ask him ’
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N o H e s too tired
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The train stopped fo r half an hour at Bo rdeaux and

we went ou t through the station for a little walk Ther e .

was n o t time to get in to the town Afterward we passed .

through the Lan des and watch ed the sun set There
s
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were wide fir e gaps cut th rough the pines and you could
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look up them like avenues and see wooded hills way off .

About seven thirty we had dinner and watched the

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country through the open window in the diner It was .

all sandy pine country full o f hea the r .

passed a sawm ill It got dark and we could feel the .

country hot and sandy and dark outside of th e win dow ,

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IN the morning i t was bright and they were sprinkling

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the streets of the town and we all h ad breakfast in a

,

café Bayonne is a nice town It is like a very clean

. .

Spanish town it is on a big river Already so early .

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in the was very hot on the bridge across the

river We walked o u t on the bridge and then took a
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walk through th e town

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I was n o t at all sure Mike S rods wo uld come from ’

w
S cotland In time so e hunted a tackle sto re and finally
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bo u ght a r od for Bill u p stairs over a drygoods store

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The man wh o sold the tackle was out and we had to ,

wait for him to come back Finally he cam e in and we

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bought a pret ty good rod cheap and two l an din g nets ,

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what It seemed like a nice cathedral nice and dim like

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Spanish chur ches Then we went up past the old fort

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and out to the local Syndi cat d Initiativ e offi ce where the
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bu s was supposed to start from There they told Ue the .

bus service did n o t start until the I st of J uly We found .

out at the tourist ofii ce what we ought to pay for a

motor car to Pamplona and hired on e at a big garage
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ju t ar ound the com er from the Municipal Theatre for

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fo ur h u ndred francs The car was to pick u S u p at the

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hotel in f orty minutes and we stoppe d at the cafe on

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the square where we had eaten breakfast and had a ,

beer It was ho t but the town had a cool fresh , early

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morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the c afe .

A breeze started to blow and you could feel that the

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air cenic from the

There were pigeon s out in th e
sea .

square and the houses were a yellow sun baked color

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and I did not wan t to leave the café But we had to go .

to the hotel to get our b ags packed and pay the b ill
w
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We paid for the beers e matched and I think Cohn ,

paid and went up to the hotel It was only sixt een

,
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francs apiece for Bill and me with ten per cent added ,

for th e service and we had the bags sent down and

,

waited for Robert Cohn While we were waiting I saw .

a cockroach on the parquet floor that must have been

at least three inches long I pointed him o u t to Bill
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and then put my shoe on him We agreed he must have .

just come in from the garden It was really an awfully .

Cohn came down finally and we all went out to the

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car It was a big closed car with a driver in a white

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the bac k of the He piled in the bags and we

car down .

of the tow n We passed .

good look back at the

town and then we were out in th e country green and
, ,

lots of Basques w ith oxen or cattle haulin gcarts along , ,

the road and nice farmhouses low roofs and all white
, , ,

plastered In the Basque cou ntry the land all looks very
.

1 r ich and green and the h ou S es and villages look well

)fi and clean E v ery village had a pelota court and on

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some of them kids wer e playin g in the h o t su n igTh er e n

s Vere sign s on the walls of the churches saying it was for

m idde n to play pelota against them and the houses in ,

he villages had red tiled roofs and then th e r oad turned ,

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onand com menced to climb and we wer e going way up

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close alon g a hillside with a valley below an d hills,

s tretched off back towar d th e sea

j Yo u couldn t see the
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crossed the Spanish f rontier Ther e was a little
e .

str eam and a b r idge and Spanish carabineers with pat , ,

ent leather Bo n aparte hats an d sh or t guns on their

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b acks on o n e side and on the other fat Frenchmen in

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Kep is and mustaches They only opened one bag and .

took the passports in and looked at them There was a .

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g eneral stor e and inn o n each side o f th e line The ch aui s

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feur had to go in and fill ou t some papers about the car

and we got o u t and went over to th e str eam to see if
there were any trout Bill t r ied to talk some Spanish .

to o n e of the carabineers but it did not go very well , .

Rober t Cohn asked pointing with his fin ger if there , ,

were any tr out in the stream and the carabineer said ,

y es b u t n o
, t many .

sI a sk ed him if he ever fish ed and he said no that he , ,

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didn t care for it .

1 Just th en an old man with long sunburned hair and ,

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heard and clai ms that looked as though they were

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made of gUnn y sacking came striding up to th e bridge”

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a long staff and he had a kid slung on ,

the fou r legs the head hanging down , .

~ TI carabineer waved him back with his sword Th e .

man turn ed without saying anythin g and started back

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up the white r oad into Spain .

the matter wi th the old o n e ? I asked

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H e hasn t go t any pa ssport
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I offered the guard a cigarette He took it and thanked a .

a
h at will h e do ? I ask ed .

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The gu ar d spat in th e du st s
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Oh he ll j ust wade across the str eam s
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Do yo u hav e much smuggling ?
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rising o u t o f the plain and the walls o f the city and the
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great br otvn cathedral and the broken skyline of the ,

other churches In back o f th e plateau were the moun

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tains and every way you loo ked t h er e were other moun
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tains and ahead th e r oad stretche d out white across t h e

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p lain going toward P am plo n ax

We came into the town on the other Side o f the pla

teau the road slanting up steeply and dustily with shade
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trees on bo th Sid es and then levelling ou t through the

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new part o f town they are building up outside the old

walls We passed the bull ring high and whi te and
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concrete looking in the sun and then came into the

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big sq uare by a side street and stopped in front of the

The driver helped us down with the bags There was .

a cr owd of kids watching th e car and the squ are was ,

hot and the trees were green and the flags hung on their
, ,

stafi s and it was good to get out of the sun an d under

,

the shade of the arcade that run s all th e way ar ound the
square M ontoya was glad to see us and shook hands
.
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and gave u s good rooms looking out on the square and ,

then we wash ed and cleaned up and went down stairs -

lunch too and afterward we paid him and he started

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back to Bayonne .

There are two dining rooms in the M ontoya One is -

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ti p st airs on the second floor and looks ou t o n the q are

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The other isdo wn on e floor below the le v el o f the square

and h as a door that opens o n the back street that the
bulls pass along when they run thro ugh the streets early
in the morning on their way to the rin g It is always .
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with the hors d oeuvres an egg course two meat courses ’

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vegetables Salad and dessert an d fruit Yo u have to

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drink plenty o f wine to get it all down R o bér t Coh n

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tried to say he did not want any of th e second meat

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course but we would n o t interpret fo r him and so the

, ,

waitress brought him s omething else as a replacem ent ,

a plate of cold meats I think Cohn had been rather ,

.

nervousever since we had met at Bayonne He di d n ot .

know whether we knew Brett had been with him at San

Sebastian and it made him rather awkward,
.

“ ” “
Well I said Brett and M ike ought to get in to
, ,
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night .

“
I m n o t sure they ll come Cohn said
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“ ” “
Why n o t ? Bill said Of course they ll come .
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They re always late I said ,
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I rather think they re n o t coming Robert Cohn said ’

,
.

He said it with an air of s upe rior knowledge that irri

f ated both of us .

“ ’ ’
I ll bet yo u fif ty pesetas they re here to night Bill -

said .He always bets when he is angered and so he ,

“ “
’
I ll take it Cohn said Good You remember it,
,
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. .

”
Jake Fifty pesetas
. .

“
I ll remembe r it myself Bill said I saw he was
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,
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angry and wanted to smooth him down -

“ ”
It s a sure th in g t h ey ll come
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I said But maybe ,
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not to night -
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“ ”
Want to call it ofi ? Cohn asked .

No Why should I ? Make it a hundred if you like

. .

“All right I ll take that ” .

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“ ’ ” ’
That s enough I said Or you ll have to make a ,
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book and give me some of it .

Cohn said He smiled “You ll pro b . .

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You haven t got it yet Bill said
’ -

,
.

We went ou t to walk around under the arcade to the

C afé Iruna for coff ee Coh n said he was going ov er and
‘

get a shave .

” ‘
Say Bill said to me have I go t any chance on
, ,

that bet ?
“ ’ ’
You ve go t a rotten chance They ve never been on .

time anywhere If their money doesn t come it s a cinch

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they won t get in to night
’
—
.

“
I was sorry as s oon as I opened my mouth But I . .

’
had to call him He s all right I guess but where does
.
, ,

he get this inside stu fi ? Mike and Brett fixed it up

with us about coming down here ”
.

I saw Cohn coming over across the squar e .

”
Here he comes .

“
The barbe r Shop s closed ’
, Cohn said . It s not’

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open till fem .

wicker Chairs looking o u t from the cool o f th e arcade at

the big s quare Af ter a while Bill went to write some
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l etters aiid Cohn went over to the barber shop ; It was ,

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still close d so he decided to go up to the hotel and get

,

a bath and I sat ou t in front of the caf é and then went

,

fo r a walk in t h e town It was very hot but I kept on .

‘ ,

the shady sid e of the streets and went through the mar
ket and had a good time seeing the town again I went .

to the Ayuntamiento and found the old gentleman who

subscribe s fo r the bull figh t tickets for me every year
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and he had gotten the money I sen t h im from Paris and

renewed my subscriptions so that was all set He was
.
, .

the archivist and all the archi ves o f the town were in
,

with the story Any .

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A m se f
y l as r
p ya in §
I was a little ashamed and r egretted ,

that such a rotten Catholic but realized ther e was ,

nothing I cou1d do about it at least for a while and , ,

maybe never but that anyway it was a grand religion

, ,

nex t time ; and then I was out in the h o t sun o n the steps
of the cathedral and the fo r efin ger s and the thumb of
,

my right hand were still damp and I felt them dry in ,

the sun The sunlight was hot and hard and I crossed
.
,

over beside some buildings and walked back along side ,

st reets to the hotel .

At dinner that night we found that R obert Cohn had

taken a bath had had a shave and a haircut and a sham
,

o and something put on his hair afterward to make

p o ,

it stay down He was nervous and I did n o t try to help

'

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,

him any The train was due in at nine o clock from San
.
’

Sebastian and if Brett and Mike were co ming they

, , ,

would be on it At twenty minutes to n ine we were not

.

half t hrough dinner Robert Cohn go t up from the .

,

table and said he wou ld go to the station I said I would .

go wi th him just to devil him Bill sai d he would be

,
.

damned if he would leave his dinner I said we wou ld be .

right back .

’
We walked to the station I was en joying Cohn s ner .

v ousnes s I hoped Brett would be on the train At the

. .

station the train was late and we sat o n a baggage truck

,
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and wait ed outside in the dark I have never seen a .

in whistle way ofi belo w

Afte r a while we hear d th e tra
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on th e other Side of the plateau and then we saw the ,

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h eadlight com ing up the hill We went inside the sta .

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T H E S UN A L S O R I S E S 1 01

W
They wer e not in the crowd We waited till ev erybody .

had gone through and out of the station and gotten into ,

bu ses , or taken cabs or were walking with their f riends

,

or relatives through the dark into the town .

“
e wer e
”
I knew they wouldn t come Robert said ’
, .

going back to the hotel .

“
I thou gh t th ey might I said , ,

Bill was eating fruit when we came in and finishing

a bottle of wine .

“ ’
Didn t come eh ? ,
”
No .

Do you m in d if I give you that hundred pesetas in

'

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the morning Cohn ? Bill asked I haven t changed ’
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,

” “ ’
Oh forget about it Rober t Cohn said
,
Let s bet ,
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o n something else Can you bet on bull figh ts . l 4 ‘ -

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You could Bill said but you don t need
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i

It would be like betting on the war I said You l ,

.

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I m very curious to see them
’
Robert said ,
.

Montoya came up to our table He had a t elegr am in .

“ ”
his hand It s for yo u Hehanded it to me
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. . .

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It read : Stopped night San Sebastian .

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It s from them I said I put it m my pocket Ordi
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nar ily I should have handed it over .

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They ve stopped ove r In San Sebastian I sai d ,
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 T H E S UN A L S O R I S E S
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did hate him I do not think I ev e r really hate d him

. .

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until he had t hat little spell O f su periority at lunch .

that and when he went through all that barbering So .

I put the t elegr am in my pocke t Th e telegram came to

‘
.

”
Well I said
,
We ou ght to pull out on the noon
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bus for B urguete They can follow us if they get in

.

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to morrow night
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There were only two trains up from San Sebas tian ,

an early morning train and the one we had just met .

“ ”
That sounds like a good idea Cohn said ,

The sooner we get on the stream the better .

” “
It s all on e to me when we start Bill said
’
The ,
.

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sooner the better .

We sat in the Ir u fia for a while and had coff ee and then

to ok a lit tle walk ou t to the bull ring an d across th e field -

and under the t r ees at the edge o f the cliff and looked
dow n at the river in the dark and I turned in early ,
.

Bill an d C OM stayed out in th e caf é quite lnte I be ,

s

In the morning I bought three tickets for the bu s to

B urguete It was scheduled to leave at two o clock
"
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Th er e was nothing ear lier I was sitting over at the .

‘

k m rea ding the papers when I saw Robert Cohn com

ing acr oss the square He came up to the table and sat .

down in one o f the wicker chairs

'

“ ”
This is a comfortable café he said Did yo u have ,
.

”
a goqd nigh t Jake ? ,
“
I slept like a log .

“
I didn t sleep very well Bill and I wer e out late
’
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,

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Here And after it shut we went ov e

. r to that other
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r afé .The old man ther e speaks Ger man and English .
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Idh
f‘
I want to go over to the barbe r shop
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”
S ee yo u at lunch .

I found Bill u p in his room H e was shaving . .

“ ”
O h yes he told me all about it last ni ght Bill said
, , , .

H e s a gr eat lit tle con fider He said he had a date

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wi th Bre tt at San Sebastian .

“ ”
The lying bastard 1
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Oh n o said Bill ,
Don t get sore Don t get sore
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at this stage o f the trip H o w did you ever happen to .

”
kn ow this fellow anyway ? ,
“ ”
D on t rub it in ’
.

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Bill l ooked around half shaved and then went on ,
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talking into the mirror while he lathered his face .

“
Didn t you send him with a letter to me in New York
’

last winter ? Thank God I m a travelling man Haven t ,

’
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you go t some more Jewish friends you could bring -

”
along ? H e rubbed his chin with his thumb looked
-

at it and then started scraping again

‘

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,
“
You ve go t some fine ones yourself
’
.

Oh yes I ve got some darbs But not al ongside of

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this Robert Cohn The funny thing is he s nice too I ’ ’

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,
”
like him But he s just so awful .
’
.

“
He can be damn nice .
’

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I kn ow it That s the terrible part . .

” “
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Yes
Go on and laugh said Bill
. You weren t ,
.
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o ut with him last night until two o clock ;

’

“ ”
Was he very bad ?
Awful What s all thi s about him and B r ett any
.
’
,

way ? Did sh e ever have anythin g to do with him ? ”

He raised his chin up and pulled it from side to side .

“
S ure Sh e wen t down to San Sebastian with him ”
'

'

. .

What a damn fool thing to do Why did she do -

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that ?
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She wanted to get Stat o f town and sh any

where alone She said sh e thought it would be good for
.
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go o ff with som e o i her own people ? Or yo u ? '

he —

“
Slurred that over o r me Why n o t me
—
He loo ked
at his face carefully in the glass put a big dab of lather ,
“
o n each cheek bone
’
It s an hon est face It s a face ’

Q
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an y woman would be safe with .

“ ’ ”
She d nev er seen it .

S h e should have All women should see it I t s a

’
. .

face that ought to be thrown on every screen in the

country Ever y woman ought to be given a copy of
.

this face as she leaves the altar Mothers should tell

“
.

”
their daughters about this face My so n h e pointed .
—

‘
the razor at me go west with this face and grow u p
”
with the country .

He ducked down to the bowl ri nsed his face with ,

cold water put on some al cohol and th en looked at

, ,

himself carefully in the glass pulling down his long ,

” “ ’
My God ! he said isn t it an awful face ? ,

He looked in the glass .

M
“ “
obert Cohn Bill said he mak es

m e sick and he can go to hell and I m dam

, ,

,
n glad he sl/ ,
’ ’ ’

staying here so we won t have him fishing with us

3
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.

“
You re damn right
’
.

We r e going trout fishin g We re going trout fishing

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’
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in the Irati River and we re going to get tight now at

,
’

lunch on the wine of the country and then take a sn u

g
,
”
bus rid e !
“ ”
Oom e on Let s go over to the I runa an d start
’
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 W
h t in the square when we came ou t
after l unch with o u r bags and the r od case to go to Bur
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guete People were on top of the bu s and others were

.
,

climbing up a ladder Bill ent up and Robert sat be

.

side Bill to save a place for me an d I went back in th e

,

h otel to get a couple o f bottles of wine to take wi th us .

When I came o u t th e bus was crowded Men and women .

were sitting o n all the baggage and boxes on top and ,

the women all had their fans going in the sun It cer .

Robert clim bed down and I fitted into )

saved on the one wooden seat that ran

for u start A Basque with a big leather wine bag in

sto .
-

his lap lay acr oss the top o f the bu s in front of our seat ,

leanin g back against o ur legs He off ered the wine skin

.
-

to Bill and to me and when I tipped it up to drink he

,

imitated the sound of a klaxon motor horn so well and so

-

suddenly that I spilled some of th e wine and everybody ,

drink He made the klaxon again a little later and it

.
,

fooled me the second time He was v ery good at it

. .

The Basques liked it Them an nex t to Bill was talk

.

in g to him m Spanish and Bill was n o t getting it so he ,

‘

o fie r ed the man one of the bottles o f wine The man

'

the second tim e he took a long drink and then the bo t

,

tle w ent all over that part of the bus Ever y one took a
.

drin k v ery politely and then t hey made u s cor k it up

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1 08 TH E S UN '
AL S O R I S E S
ised it high up squeezin g the le ather bag with his
and r a

W
, .

hand so the stream of wine hissed into his mouth He

s
.

held the bag out there the wine making a flat hard
, ,

smoothly and regularly

“
the owner of the bottle shouted hose
'

”
wine is that ?
The drinker waggled his little finger at him and sm iled
at u s with his eyes
~
Then he hit the st r eam off sharp
w
.
,

mad e a quic k lif t with the ine bag and lower ed it down
'

We passed throu gh a town and stopped in front of the

posada and the dr iv er too k on several packages Then
’

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,

we started on again and outside the town the road com

,

m en ced to mount We were going thr ough farming

.
,

we went hi gher there was a wind blowing the grain The .

.

r oad w as white and dusty and the dust rose under the
,

wheals and hung in the air behind us The road c l imbed .

up into the hills and left the rich grain fields below Now -
.

there were only patches of grain on the bare hillsides and

on each side of the water courses We turned sharply ou t
-
.

to the side of the road to give room to pass to a long

string of six mules following one after the other haul
, ,

ing a high ho oded wagon loaded with freight The wagon

~
.

and the m ul es were cover ed with dust Close behind .

was another string of mul es and another wagon This

W
.

was loaded with lumber and the arriero driv ing th e mules
,

lean ed back and put on the thick wood en brakes as we

‘

passed Up here the country was quite barren and the hills
.

wer e ro cky and h ar d baked clay furrowed by the r ain

-
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e came around a curv e into a town and on both

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 T HE S UN A L S O K I S E S
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reg
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si es
d open ed out a sudden gr een v alley A str eam wen t .

thr ough the cen tre of the town and fields of gr apes
touched the houses .

The bus stopped in front of a posada and many of the

”

passen gers got down and a lot of the baggage was un

'

and lif ted down Bill and I got down and wen t into the
.

posada There was a low dark room with saddles and

.
,

harness and hay forks made of white wood and clus

,
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ters of canvas rope soled shoes and hams and slabs of -

bacon and white garlics and long sausages hanging from

the roof It was cool and dusky and we stood in front
.
,

of a long wooden counter with two women be hind it

serving drink s Behind th em wer e shelves stacke d with

.
~

We each had an aguardiente and paid forty centimes

for the two dr inks I gave the woman fifty centimes to
.

m ake a tip and she gave me back the copp er piece think
, ,

ing I had misunderstood the price .

Two of our Basques came in and in sist ed on buyin g a ,

drink So they bought a drink and then we bough t a

.

they slapped us on the back an d bought

Then we bought and then we all went ,

out into the sunlight and the heat and climbed back ,

on top of th e bu s There was plenty o f room h ow for

‘

ev ery one to sit on the seat and the Basque wh o had

'

been lyin g on the tin roof n ow sat between us The

’

wom an wh o h ad been ser ving drinks cam e ou t wiping

her hands on her apron an d talked to somebod y inside
the bus Then the driver came out swinging two flat
.

leath er mai l pouches and climbed up and everybody

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valley at once and we were ,

and the wine bottle Basque -

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TH E S U N f AL S O R I S E S
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r

“ ’
the other side of the seat and asked in English : You re
”
Am ericans ?

W
“ ”
Sure .

”
I been there he said Forty years ago
,
. .

He was an old man as brown as the o th er s with th e , ,

.

stu bble of a whi te beard .

W
hat you say ? .

How was America ?

“
Oh I was in C alifor nia It was
,
i
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“ ”
Why did you leave ?
”
h at yo u f
say ?

Oh ! I come back to get married I was going to go .

back but my wife sh e don t like to tr avel Where you

’
.

”
Kansas City .

” “
I been there he said I been in Chicago St Lou is
,
.
,
.
,
”
Kansas City Denver Los Angeles Salt Lake City
, , ,
.

How long were you over ?

Fif teen years Then I come back and go t marri ed
. .

Have a drink ?
”
All right he said You can t get this in Am erica
,
.
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,

”
The re s plenty if you can pay fo r it
’
.

”
Wh at yo u come over here for ?
We re going to the fiesta at Pamplona
’
.

”
You like the bull figh ts ? -

” ’
Sure Don t you ?
.

” “
Yes he said
,
I guess I like them . .

Then after a little

“
Whe re you go n ow?
1 1 THE S UN ALS O RISES
There s Roncev aux I said
’
,
.

Where ?
Way ofi there where the mountain starts .

“ ”
’
It s cold up here Bill sai d ,
.

“ ” “
It s high I said It must be twelve hundr ed
’
.
,

“
It s awful cold Bill said
’
,
.

The bu s levelled down onto the straight line o f road

jth at ran to Burguete We passed a crossroads and .

crossed a bridge over a stream The houses of Burguete .

wer e along both sides of the road There were no side .

streets We passed the church and the school yard and

.
-

the bu s stopped We go t down and the driver handed

.

down ou r bags and the rod case A carabineer in his -

.

cocked hat and yellow leather cross straps cam e up -

.

“ ”
What s in there ? he pointed to the r o d case
’
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.

I op ened it and showed him He asked to see our fish .

ing permi ts and I go t them o u t He looked at the date .

and then waved u s on .

”
Is that all right ? I asked .

Yes Of course . .

We went up the street past the whitewashed stone ,

houses famili es sittin g in their doorways watchin g us

, ,

to the inn -

"
The fat woman who ran the inn came out from the
kitchen and shook hands with us She took o ff her spec .

ta d es wiped them an d put them o n again It was cold

, ,
.

The woman sent a girl u p stairs with us to sho w the -

W
room There were two beds a washstand a clothe s
.
, ,
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chest and a big framed steel engravin g of N u est r a

, ,
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the s
hu tters The room was on the north side of the
. .

inn e washed put on sw

. , eater s an d cam e downs tairs
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S UN ALS O R ISE S 1 13

into the dining room It had a stone fl oor low Ceiling

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and was oak panelled The shutter s were all up an d

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it was so cold you could see you b r eath .

“ ” “
My God ! said Bill It can t be this cold to mor .
’
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’ ”
row I m no t going to wade a stream in this wea ther
. .

There was an upright piano in the far corner o f the

room beyond the wooden tables an d Bill ent over and w
I got to keep warm he said

W
.
,

I went out to find the woman and ask her h ow much

the room and bo ard was She put her hands under her .

apron and looked away from me .

“ ”
Twelve pesetas .

h y we only pai d tha t in Pamplona

,
.

She did n o t say anything , just took off her glasses

and wiped them on her apron .

“ ”
’
That s too much I said We didn t pay more ’ ‘

.
,

than that at a big hotel .

’
Haven t yo u go t anything cheaper ?
Not in the summer Now is the big season . .

it s only a fewdays
’
.

“
Is the wine included ?
”
Oh yes ,
.

” ”
Well I said ,
It s all r ight .
’
.

I went back to Bill He blew his breath at me to .

sh o wh o w cold it was and w ent on playing I sat at ,

.

one of the tables and looked at the pictures on the wall .

There was on e panel of rabbits dead on e of pheasants , , ,

also dead and o ne panel of dead ducks The panels

,
.

were all dark and smoky looking There was a cup -

.

board full of liqueur bottles I looked at them all Bill . .

“
was still playing
. How about a ho t r u m punch ?
.
”
.
 “
he said . This isn t going to keep me warm perma
’

”
u ently
.

I went ou t and told the woman what a rum punch

was and h ow to make it In a few minut es a girl brought
.

a stone pitcher steaming into the room Bill came over

, ,
.

from the piano and we dran k the h o t punch an d listened

There isn t too much rum in that

’
.

I went over to the cupboard and brought the rum

bottle an d poured a half tumblerful into the pitcher
-
.

“ ” “ ”
Direct action said Bill
,
It beats legislation . .

The girl came in and laid the table for supper .

“ ”
It blows like hell up here Bill said ,
.

The girl brought in a big bowl o f h o t vegetable soup

and the wine We had fried trout afterward and some
.

sort o f a stew and a big bowl full of wild strawberries .

We did n o t lose money on the wine and the girl was shy ,

but nice about bringing it The old woman looked in.

once and counted the empty bottles .

After supper we went u p stairs and smoked and read

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in bed to keep warm Once in the night I woke and

.

heard the wind blowing [ It felt good to be war m and

in bedI)
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 1 16 THE S UN A L S O R IS E S
“ “
I saw you out of the window he said Didn t ,
.
’

want to interrupt you What were you doing ? Burying .

your money ?
“
You lazy bum !
Bee n
want you to do that every morning .

“ ” ”
Come on I said Get up , . .

What ? Ge t up ? I n ever get up .

He climbed into bed and pulled the sheet up to his

Try and argue me into ge tting up .

I went on looking for the tackle and putting it all

together in the tackle bag -
.

“
i
’

A ren t you interested ? B ll asked .

“
I m go ing down and eat
’
.

Eat ? Why didn t you say eat ? I thought you just

,
’

wanted me to get up for fun Eat ? Fine Now you re . .

’

I ll be r ight down
’
.

Oh go to hell !
,

7 “
. Work for the good of all . Bill stepped into his un
“ ”
er clo thes Show irony and . pity .

I started out of the r oom with the tackle bag the -

nets and the rod case

,
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,
“
Hey ! come back
door .

show a little irony and pity ?

That s n o t ir ony ’
.

As I went down stairs I heard Bill singing Irony -

,
’
and Pity When you re feeling. Oh Give them ,
'

’
they re feeling Just a little irony Just a little .

pity He kept on singing until he came down stairs -

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r r 7 .

The tune was : The Bells ar e Rin ging for M e and my

”
Gal I was reading a week old Spanish paper “
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“ ”
What s all t his iron y and pity ?
’

’
What Don t you kn ow about Ir ony and Pity ?
”
No Who got it u p?
.

It s just like the Fr atellin is used to be

’
.

The girl came in with the cod ee and buttered toast

'

Or , rather it was br ead toasted and butter ed

‘
.

“ ” “
Ask her if she s got any jam , Bill said Be ironical
’
.

with her .
”

“
Have you got any jam ?
’
That s not ironical I wish I could talk Spanish . .

Th e girl b r ought in a glass dish of raspberry jam .

“ ”
Thank you .

“
Hey ! that s not the way Bill said
” ’
Say something ,
.

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ir on ical , Make some crack about Pr imo de Rivera .

“
I could ask her what kind of a jam they think they ve ’

g otten into in the Riff .

“ ” “ ’
Poor said Bill Very poor You can t do it . . .

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That s all You don t understand i rony You hav e n o
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pity Say something pitiful
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Robe rt Cohn .

Not so bad That s better Now hy 18 Cohn piti

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ful ? Be i ronic .

Aw, hell ! It s too ear ly in the morning ’

I said . .

There you go And you claim you want to be a G: .

wr iter too You re only a newspaper man An ex pa 3

, ,
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tr iated newspaper man You ought to be ironical the .

with your mouth full of pity .

“ ” “
Go on I said Who did you get this stu ff fr om ?
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D on
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t you read ? Do n t you ever see'

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know what you are ? You re an ex pa
triate Why don t you live in New York ? Then you d
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know these things What do you want me to do ? Come .

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over here and tell you every year ?
“ ”
Take some m ore coff ee, I said .

Good Coffee is good fo r yo u It s the cafiein e in it

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Caff eine we are here Caffeine pu ts a man o n her horse

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and a woman in his grave Yo u know what s the trouble .

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with yo u ? You re an ex patriate One of the worst type ; .

Haven t you heard th at ? Nobody that ever left their

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o wn country ever w r ote anything worth printing N ot .

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You re an expatriate You ve lost touch with th e .

soil Yo u get precious Fake European standar ds have

. .

ruined you Yo u drink yourself to death You become

. .

obsessed by sex Yo u spend all your time talking not .

,

working You are an expatriate see ? You hang around

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caf és

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It sounds like a swell life I said When do I ,
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work ? V
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Yo u don t work On e group cl aim s women support
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y o u A nother
. group claims you re ’

0 I said EI just had an

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Never mention that Bill said That s the sort of ,
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thing that can t be spoken of That s what y ou ought to

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work up ihto a mystery .

afraid he thought he had hurt me with that crack about

being impotent I wanted to start him agai n . .

“ ”
It wasn t a bicycle I said He was a ding hor se
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back .

“
I h ear d it was a tricycle
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m t tle wer e up in the hills . We hee r d t h eir bellsin the

Th e path cr ossed a stream on a foot log The le g was

ced off and ther e w
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su rfa as a sapling bent across for a

, .

rail In the flat pool beside the stream tad poles spotted
.

t h e sand We went up a steep ban k and across the r oll

.

ig
n fields Looking back
. we saw Burguete white hous es ,

and r ed roofs and the white road with a truck going

,

along it and the dust rising .

Beyond the fields we crossed another faster flowing -

stream A sandy road led down to the for d and beyond

.

la te the woods The path crossed the stream on another

.

foot log bel ow the for d and joined the road and we
-

, ,

wen t into th e wo ods .

I t was a beech wood and the trees wer e ver y old .

The ir roots b ulked abov e the ground and the branches

wer e twisted We walked on the r oad between the thick
.

tr unks o f th e old beeches and the sunlight came thr o ugh

the leaves in light patches on the grass The trees wer e .

big and the foliage was thi ck but it was not gloom y
, .

There was n o undergrowth o nly the smooth grass very

'

, ,

though it we re a park .

“ ”
This is country Bill said , .

The road went up a hill and we got into thick woods ,

and the road kept on climbing Sometimes it dipped .

down but rose again steeply All the time we heard the .

cattle in the woods Finally the road came out on th e

.
,

land that was the highest part of the r an ge o f wooded

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r zr

the houlder of the ridge of bills T he hills ahead wer e

’

s .

Irati River .

these hills go through the woods on the far hills an d

, ,

c ome do w
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n to the Irati valley I pointed out to Bill ,
.

“ ’ ”
That s a hell o f a hike .

It s too far to go and fish and come back the sam e

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lik e hell to get there an d back and have any fishi ng at all «
.

It was a long walk and the country was very fine but ,

la Fabrica ,

The road came out from the sh adow of the woods

into the hot sun Ah ead was a river valley Beyond the
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riv er was a steep hill Th ere was a field of buckwheat .

on the hill We saw a whi te house under some trees on

.

so me tr ees beside a dam that crossed the river .

Bill put the pack against one of th e tr ees and we ’

jointed up t h e rods put on the reels tied on leaders

,
and , ,

g ot ready to fish .

You re sure this thing has trout in it ? Bill asked

’
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“ ’
It s full of them .

“
I m going to fish a fly You got any M c Gin tys ?
’
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There s some in ther e ’ '

You going to fish bait ?

Yeah I m going to fish the dam here
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Well I ll take th e fiy book then
,
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He tied on a -

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U ?
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iv . Whe r e d I bet t er go ? p m r down -
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r e

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D own i s the best They re ple nty up above too .
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, .
”

Bill went down the ban k .

“
Take a worm can .

d ake a fly I ll
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I o n t want on e If they won t t
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' No ,
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j ust flick it aro und .

Bill was down below watching the stream .

“ ”
Say he called up against the noise o f the dam
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,

H ow about putting the wine in that spring up the

”
r oad ?
“ ”
All right 1 shouted Bill waved his hand and
,
.

started down the stream I found the two wine bottles

i n the pack and carried them up the road to w
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.

,
here the
water of a spring flowed ou t o f an iron pipe There was .

a bo ard over the spring and I lif ted it and kn o cking the ,

c orks firm ly into the bottl es lowered them down into ,

the wat er It was so cold my hand and wrist felt numbed

. .

I put back the slab o f wood and hoped nobody woul d ,

fi n d the win e .

I go t my r od that was leaning against the tr ee took ,

the bait can and lan ding net and walked o u t onto the
- -

d am It was built to provide a head of water fo r driving

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l ogs The gate was up and I sat o n o n e o f the squared

.
,

t imbers an d watched the smooth apron o f water before

th e r iv er tumbled into the falls In the white water at
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the foot of the dam it was d eep As I baited up a trout .

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s hot up o u t o f the white wat er into the falls and was

carried down B e fore I could finish baiting an o tlfer

.
,

trout jumped at the falls making the same lovely ar c ,

and disappearing into the water that was thunder ing

d own I put on a goo d sized sinker and dropped into
.
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the white water close to the edge o f the timbers o f th e

d ain .

I did not feel the first tr out strike When I started to .

pull up I felt that I had on e and brought him figh tin gd , ,

 TH E S U N ALS O RISES ”

”
Get any ? he ask ed He had his r od and his bag .

and his net all in one hand and he was sweating. I ,

hadn t heard him come up because of the noise from th e

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,

“
Six What did you get ?
. ,

Bill sat down opened up his bag laid a big trout on

, ,

the grass He took out three m ore each one a little big
.
,

ger than the last and laid them side by side,

i n the shade

from the tree His face was sweaty and happy

. .

“ ”
How are yours ?
”
Smaller .

’
Let s see them .

’
They re packed .

How big are they really ?

They re all about the size of your smallest
’
.

”
You re n o t holding out on me ?
’

I wish I were .

Get them all on worms ?

Yes .

You lazy bum !

Bill put the trout in the bag and started for th e riv er ,

sw inging the open bag He was wet from the waist

'

down and I knew he must have been wading the stream .

I walked up the road and got out the two bottles of

wine They were cold Moisture beaded on the bottles
. .

as I walked back to the trees I spread the lunch on a .

newspaper and uncorked one of the bot tles and leaned

,

the other against a tree Bill came up drying his hands .

o ,

Let s see that bottle he said He pulled the cork

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an d tipped up the bottle and drank Wh ew l That .

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Let s try it .
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That s not such filthy wine
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Bill said .

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The cold helps it I said , .

Chicken .

Find any salt ?

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Fir st the egg said Bill Then the chicken E v en
, . . fi
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B ryan could see that .

“
He s dead I read it in the paper yesterday
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No Not really ?
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Yes Bryan s dm d
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Bill laid down the egg he was peeling .

”
G entlemen he said and
,
unwrapped a drumsti ck ,

from a piece of newspaper I reverse the order For . s ,

B ryan s sake As a tribute to the Great Commoner

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First the chicken ; then the egg m .

Oh said Bill sucking the drumstick how should

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we know We should not question Our stay on earth .

thanks .

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Eat an eg .

Bill gestured with the drumstick in one hand and the .

bottle of wine in the other .

“
Let us rejoice in our bl essings Let u s utilize thed .

{owls of the air Let us utilize the product of the v ine

. J 3
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”
Will you u tilize a little brother ? ,
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After you b r other ,
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Bill took a long drink .

“
Utilize a little brother , he han ded me the bottle
, .

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Let us not doubt brother Let us not pry into th e
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r éé
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pointed the drumstick at me and went on Let me tell .

you We will say an d I for on e am proud to say and I

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want you to say wi th me on your knees bro ther Let , ,

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n o man be ashamed to kneel here in the great ou t o f

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doors Remember the woods were God s first tem ples

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Let us kneel and say : D on t eat that Lady that s ’ —

M en ck en
h
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J
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Utilize a little of t is “
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other bottle .

”
What s the matt e r ? I said
’
Didn t you like .
’

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B ryan ?
I loved B ryan said Bill We were like brothers
,
. .

Where did yo u know him ?

He and Mencken and I all went to Holy Cross to

And Frankie Fritsch

w
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It s a lie Frankie Fritsch ent to Fordham
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” “
Well I said I went to Loyola with Bishop Man
, ,

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a lie Bill said
It s I went
,
. to Loyola with Bishop
Manning myself .

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You re cock eyed I said -

,
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On wine ?
Why n o t ?
“
It s the humidity
’
Bill said ,
. They ought to take

Have another shot .

’
Is this all we ve go t ?
Only the two bottles .

Do you know what yo u are ? Bill looked at the

bottle affectionately .

“ ”
No I said
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5
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You re in the pay of the Anti Saloon League
’
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”
I went to Notre D ame with Wayne B Wheeler . .
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“What does that mean ?
“
I don t kno w
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“All right I ll go to sleep now ” he said “Don t k

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, eep ,
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m e awake by talking so much ,
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I went to sleep too When I woke up Bill was pack ,

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in g th e r u cksack It was late in the afternoon and the

/
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sh adow from the trees was long and went out o v er t h e

dam I was stifi from sleeping on the ground .

W
.

“What did ou do ? Wake up ? Bill asked “Why

y .

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didn t you spend the night ? I stretched and rubbed
’

1 “ “
6 I had a lovely dream Bill said ’
I don t remember ,
.

t it was about but it as a lovely dream ,

”
I don t think I dreamt ’
.

“You ought to dream ” Bill said “

All our biggest .
,

busin ess men have been dreamers Look at Ford Look . .

1 Davidson
0 .

I disjointed my nod and Bill s and packed them m the ’

r od case
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I put the reels m the tackle bag Bill had
.
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p ack ed the rucksack and we put one of the trout bags -

in I carri e
. d the other .

“ ” “
Well said Bill hav e we got ev erything ?
, ,

Yo u r worms Put them in ther e . .

He had the pack o n his back and I pu t the worm cans -

h one o f the outside flap pockets .

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Yo u go t everything now ?
I looked around on the grass at the foot of the elm
“Yes

W
i

We started up the road into the woods It was a km g .

alk h ome to Burguete and it w as dark when we came ,

a

( own ac r ess th e fields te th e r oad

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and alon g th e r oad
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between the houses of the town their windows lighted;

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to the inn.

We stayed five days at B urguete and had good

ing The nigh ts wer e cold and the days were h ot
.
,

there was always a breeze even in the heat o f th e

It was hot enough so that it felt good to wade in a .

stream, and the sun dried you when you came out
sat on the b ank We found a stream with a pool deep T
en ough to swim in In the evenings we played three
.

handed bridge with an Englishman named Harris who ,

had walked over from Saint Jean Pied de Port and was
stopping at th e inn for th e fishing He was very pleasant
.

and went with us twice to the Irati River.

 ON E morning and the Eng
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lishman Har ris was already at the table He was read

, ,
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ing the paper through spectacles He looked up and .

Good morning he said : Letter fo r yo u I stopped

,
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at the pest and they gave it me with mine .

The letter was at my place at the table leaning against ,

a coff ee cup Harris was reading the paper again I

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opened the letter It had been forwarded from Pam

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plona It was dated San S ebastian Sunday

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W
We go t here Friday Brett passed ou t on the train so
, ,

brought her here for 3 days rest with old friends o f ours .

We go to Mon toya Hotel Pamplona Tu esday arriving ,

at I don t know what hour Will yo u send a note by

’
.

the bu s to tell us what to do to rejoin yo u all o n edn es

d ay. All our love and sorry to be late but Brett was ,

really done in and will be quite all right by Tues and .

is practically so n ow I know her so well and try to

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look after her bu t it s n o t so easy Love to all the chaps

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M I CH AE L .

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What day of the week is it ?
I asked Harris .

I think Yes quite Wednesday

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,
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Wonderful h ow on e loses track of the days up here in

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the moun tains .

“
Yes e ve been here nearly a week
.
’
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I hope you re not thinking of leaving ?

’

Yes We ll go In on the afternoon bus I m afr aid

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We re going in anyway I said ,
There s no use ,
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tr ying to mo v e Bret t an d Mike out here and back befor e

”
th e fiesta Should we answer it ?
.

W
“
We might as well said Bill
”
Ther e s no need for
,
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135 to be snooty .

W
h at
will we say ? Bill asked .

“‘Arriving to night That s en ou gh-

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.

We paid for the message and walked back to the Inn .

H arris was there and the th r ee of us alked up to R o m e

v all es We went through the mo naster y
. .

“It s a remarkable place ” Harris said when we cam e

’
, ,
“
o ut . But you know I m not much on those sort of ’

“It’s
a remarkable place though Harris said I ”
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, ,

wouldn t not hav e seen it I d been inten ding coming

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up each day .

“It Isn t the sam as fishin g tho h Is it ? ” Bill asked

’
o ug , , .

“Isay n o t .

We were standing in front of the old chapel of the

“
Isn t that a pub across the way ? Harris asked
’
Or ”
.

”
do my eyes deceive me ?

W
‘ It has the look of a
f
b
”
Bill said
pu , .

“ ”
It looks to me like a pub I said ,
.

“I say ” said Harris “let s utilize it ” He had taken ’

.
, ,

e
h a ad
bottle of wine ap iece Harri s would not let .

He talked Spanish i e w ll and the i

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us py
a .
qu t e n n ,
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T H E S UN AL S O R I S E S £33
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I say . You don t kn ow what it s meant ’
to m e to

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We ve had a grand time Harr is ,
.

Harris was a little tight .

“
I say Really you don t know how much it means
.
’
.

”
I ve not had much fun since th e war
’
.

“
We ll fish together again some time Do n t you for
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’

ge t it Harris
, .

“ ”
We must We have had such a jolly good time
. .

”
How about another bottle around ?
Jolly good idea said Harris ,
.

” “ ”
This is mine said Bill Or we don t drink it ,
.
”
’
.

’
I wish you d let me pay for it It does give m e .

”
p leasure you know ,
.

“
This is go ing to give me pleasure Bill said ,
.

The innkeeper brought in the fourth bottle We had

'

k ept the same glasses Harris lifted his gl ass . .

“ ”
I say Yo u know this does utilize well
. .

”
Good old Harris .

I say You kno wmy n ame isn t really Harris

.
’
.

Wilson H arris All one name Wi th a hyphen

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know .

“ ” “
Good old Wilson Harris Bill said We call -

,
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’
I say Barnes You don t know what this all means
,
.

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to me .

“
Come on and utilize another glass I said
“

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Barnes Really Barnes you can t know That s all

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”
Drink up Harris ,
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Harrisbetween u s We had lunch at the in n and Harr is .

went w ith us to the bus He gave us his card with his

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ad dr es
s in London and his cl ub and his business address;
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an d as we the bus he ha
go t on nded us ea ch an envelope .

I opened mine and there we re a dozen fli es in it Harris .

had tied them himself He tied all his own fli es . .

I say Harris ,
I b egan .

NO n o ! he said He was climbing down from the

”
,
.

“
bus Th ey re n o t fir st rate fl es at all I only thought
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if yo u fish ed th em some time it might remind yo u Of what

a good tim e we had ”
.

The bu s start ed Harris stood in front o f the post .

o fli ce He waved AS we started along the road h e

. .

turned and walked back towar d the inn .

“ ”
Say wasn t that Harris nice ? Bill said
,
’
.

I think he really did have a good time .

”
Harris ? You bet he did .

’
I wish he d come into Pamplona .

”
He wanted to fish .

Yes Yo u couldn t tell h ow English wo u ld mix with

’
.

”
each oth er anyway ,
.

“ ”
. I suppo se n o t .

We go t into Pamplona late in the afternoon and the

bus stoppe d in fro n t o f the Hotel Montoya Ou t in the .

plaza they were stringing el ectric ligh t wires to light -

the plaza fo r the fies ta A few kids cam e up when the .

bus stopped an d a custom officer for the town made all

,

the people getting down from the bu s open their b undles

o n the Sidewalk We went i n to th e hotel and on the
.

stairs I met Montoya He shook hands wi th us smiling .

,

in his embarrassed way .

“
Your friends are here h e said ,
.

”
Mr Campbell ?
.

Yes Mr Cohn and Mr Campbell an d Lady Ash

. . .
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ley .

e smiled tho u gh th er e wer e somethin g I wo uld

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as
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ones came each year . In Montoya s room wer e t heir

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nito Mon toya or to hi s sister The pho tographs of

.

bull figh ter s Montoya had really believed in were fr am edT

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Photographs of bu ll figh ter s who had been withou t

-

aficion Montoya kept in a drawer of his desk They .

W
often had th e most flattering inscriptions But they did .

not mean anything One day Montoya took them all

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out and dropped them in the waste basket He did not -

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want them around .

e o ft en t alked about bulls and bull figh ter s

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I had -
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stopped at the Montoya for sev eral years We never . I

full Montoya introduced m e to som e o f t hem They

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W
wer e always very polite at first and it amused them very
,

much that I should be an American Somehow it was .

for granted that an American could n o t have afi

S
H e might simulate it or cou m e it with excitement ,

bll t he could n o t re ally have it/ h en they Saw that I

l

had aficion and there was no password n o set questions

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, ,

that could bring i out rather it was a sort of o r aLspir L

,

ex am in atio wi th the questions always a litt

the defensive an d never apparent, there was this same
embarrassed putting the hand on the shoulder or a , .
thin g they wer e SiIIIply a little something shameful be
’

tween us like the spilling open o f the horses in bull

,

Bill had gone u p stairs as we came in and I found him

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Well he said talk a lot of Spanish ?

, ,

He was telling me about the bulls coming in to

nigh t
“
All right They ll probably be at the café
.
’
.

”
Have yo u go t tickets ?
Yes I got them for all the unloadin gs
. .

” ’
What s it like ? He was pullin g his cheek befor e
the glass looking to see if there were unshaved patches
,

under the line of the jaw .

”
good I said They let the bulls out Of
,
.

at a time and they have steer s in th e

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, ,

them and keep them from fighting and ,

the bulls tear in at the stee rs and the steers run ar oun d
i
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D o they ever gore the steer s ?

Sur e . Sometimes they go righ t after them an d kill
’
Can t the s teers do anything ? -

No They re trying to make friends

.
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.

”
What do th ey have them m for ?
To quiet down the bulls and keep them from break
ing their horns against the stone walls or goring each ,
were two lonely looking ticket houses standing in the -

squar e Their windows marked SO L S O L Y S OME R A and

.
, , ,

S O MB R A were shut
,
They would not open until the day
.

before the fiesta .

Across the square the white wicker tables and chair s

ext ended out beyond the Arcade to the
reet I l ooked fo r Brett and Mike at the
.

tables There they were Brett and Mike and Robert

. .

Cohn B rett was wearing a Basque beret S O was Mike

. . .

Robert Cohn was bare headed and wearing his spectacles -

.

B rett saw us coming and waved Her eyes crinkled up .

as we came up to the table .

“ ”
Hello you chaps ! sh e called
,
.

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I brought them up here Cohn said ,
.

W
’
What r o t Brett said ,
We d hav e gotten here .

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earlier if you hadn t come .

“
You d never have gotten here
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h at r o t ! Yo u chaps are brown Look at Bill

‘

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” “
Did you get good fishing ? Mike asked e .

wanted to join you

.
.

W
“
It wasn t bad We missed yo u
’
. .

I wan ted to come Cohn said b I tho u gh t I

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, ,
”
ought to bring them .

‘
You bring us What r o t . .

”
as it really good ? Mike asked Did y o u tat .

”
many ?
“
Some days we took a dozen apiece Th ere was an .
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How should I know? ? Did he think I spent all my time

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re ading the bloody gazet te ? Just give me a good lot .

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P ick them out yourself So he got me some medals .
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you know miniature medals and handed me the box,

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and I put it in my pocket and forgot it Well I wen t to .

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the dinner and it was the night they d s hot Henry
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Wilson so the P rince didn t come and the King didn t

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come and no one

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w ore any m edals and all these co v es ,

wer e busy taking off their medals and I had mine in ,

He stopped for us to laugh .

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Is that all ?
That s all Perhaps I didn t tell it right
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You didn t said Brett But no matter ,
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Ah yes said Mike

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I know now It was a dam n
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d ull dinner and I couldn t stick it so I left Later on

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in the evening I found the box in my po cket What s

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this ? I said Medals ? Bloody military medals ? S O I

cut them all Ofl their backing you know they put them —
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on a strip and gave them all around Gave one to each

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girl Form of souv enir They thought I was hell s own

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Tell the rest Brett said ,

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Don t you think that was funny ? Mike asked .

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We were all laughing It was I swear it was Any . . .

rate my tailor wrote me and wanted the medals back

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Sent a man a round Kept on writing for month s Seem s

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chap had left them to be cleaned Frigh tfully mili .

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You ddn t mean it Bill said I should think it
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would h ave been grand for the tailor

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a year just to keep him quiet So he wouldn t send me

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It w as right after the medals Gav e his letters rather a

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How did you go bankrupt ? B ill asked .

Two ways
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Mike said , .

denly .

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fi t it on ? b r ou gh t
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Friends said Mike I had a lot of friends False
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frien ds Then I had creditors too Probably had more

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about in the court Brett said

Tell th em '

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I don t remember Mike said
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I was just ,
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a
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li ttle
tigh t

Mike SEid
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thin g,
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Tell them about your learned counsel Brett said ,
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I will not Mike said
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My learned c ounsel was
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blin d too I say this is a gloomy subj e ct Are we going

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down and see these bu lls un loaded or not ?
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Let s go down .

We called the waiter paid and started to walk , ,

the to wn I started off walkin g with B r ett but R o bert

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Cohn name up and joined her on the othe r side The ,

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thr ee of us .

Ar ga Ther e were many people walking to

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the buffs an d carri ages drove do wn the hill

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whips h sin g above the walkin g people in th e s r ee t t .

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We pas sed a wine shop with a Sign in the window

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GOO d \
in e 30 Centimes A Liter .

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That s where we ll go when funds get low B rett said
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The woman standing in the door o f the w u c Sh op

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loo ked at u s as we passed She called to some one in the

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They were staring at Brett .

At the gate O f the corrals two men took tick ets from
the people that went in We went in through the gate
. .

There we re trees inside and a low stone House At the ,

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far end was the stone wall O f the corrals wi th apertures ,

in the stone that were like loopholes running all along

h e face O f each corral A ladder led up to the top of
t .

the wall and people were climbing up the ladder and

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spreading down to stand on the walls that separated

the two corrals As we came up the ladder walking
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across the grass under the trees we passed the big gray , ,

painted cages with the bulls in them There was one .

bull in each travelling box They had come by train

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from a bull breedin g ranch in Castile and had been u n

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lo aded O fl fl at cars at the station and brought up here

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to be let ou t O f their cages into the corrals Each cage .

was stencilled with the name and the brand O f the bull

down into the corral The stone walls were whitewashed

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box es and water troughs se t against the wall

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Look up there I said ,
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Beyond the river rose the

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the crowd on the stone walls .

Th e two steer s backed away against the wall the ir

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heads sun ken their eyes watchin g the bull

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The h u ll saw them and charged A man shouted from

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behind one Of the boxes and slapped his h at against the

planks and the bull before he reached the steer tu rned
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gather ed himself an d charged where the man had been ,

t r ying to reach him beh r n d the planks with a half d oze n

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quick searching drives with the right horn

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My Go d isn t he beautiful ? Brett said
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e we r e .

looking right down on him .

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Look h ow he knows how to use his horns , I said .

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S go t a left and a right just like a boxer
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Not really ?
You watch .

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It goes too fast .

Wai t There ll be another one in a minute

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The y had bac ked up another cage into the entrance .

In the far corner a man fr om behind o ne of the plank ,

shelters attracted the bull and while the bull was fac
, ,

ing away the gate was pulled up and a second bull came
o ut into the corral .

He charged straight for the steers and two men r an

out from behind the planks and shouted to turn him
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He did n ot change his di rection and the men shouted

“ ”
Hah ! Hah l Tor o ! and waved their arms ; the two
steers turned sideways to take the shock and the bull ,

drove into one of the steer s .

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Don t look I said to B rett She was watchin g
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fascinat ed .

b “ “
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Fine I s aid
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If it doesn t buck you .
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I saw it sh e said I sawhim shif t from his lef t to
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r ight '

ho r n .

Dam n go od !
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TH E . S U N ALS O lR ISE S 1 45

The s teer was down now , his neck stretched out, his
head twisted he lay the way he had fallen Suddenly
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the bull left O ff and made for the other steer which h ad
b een standing at the far end his head swinging watch , ,

ing it all Th e steer ran awkwardly and the bull caught

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him hooked him lightly in the fla

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nk and then turned ,
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away and looked up at the cr owd on the walls his cr est ,

of muscle rising The steer came up to him and made as

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though to nose at him and the bull ho oked perfunctorily .

The next time he nosed at the steer and then the two
of them tr otted over to the other bull .

When the nex t bull came out all three the two b u lls , ,

an d the steer stood together their heads side by Side

, , ,

their horns again sathe newcomer In a few minutes th e

steer picked the n éw bull up quieted him dow
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n and , ,

made him on e of the her d When the last two bulls had
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been unloaded the herd were all together .

The steer who had been gored h ad gotten to his feet

an d stood agai nst the stone wall Non e of the bulls .

came n ear him

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and he did not attempt to join the her d

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We climbed down from the wall with the cr owd , and

wall of the corral They were all quiet n ow their heads

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down We got a carriage outside an d rode up to the

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That s an extraordinary business Brett said ,
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Will those last ones fight as well as the first ?

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Robert Cohn asked They seem ed to quiet down
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aw
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fufl y fast .

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They all know each other I said fThey r e O nly , .
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dan ger ous when they re alone or only two or thr ee of

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all looked dangerous to me

Th only wan
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t to kill when they

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ha t do yo u mean dangerous ? Bill said They

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fi eou went in
ey
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fr om the herd and he d be dangerous
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That s too complicated Bill said
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Don t you ever , ,
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detach me from the her d M ike ,
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I say
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Mike said
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the y wer e fine bulls weren t
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th ey ? Did yo u see their horns ?
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Did I n ot said Brett ,
I had n o idea wh at they .

“
D idy ou see the one hi t that steer ? Mike asked .

r Robert .

What mean Mike ?do you ,

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fi Th ey lead such a quiet lif e They .

thing and they re always hangin g about

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so

I should think you d ’

love it .
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You d never have to

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just sit there .

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I said s ome thi ng Mike Don t you remember ?
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A bout the steers .

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Oh say something more Say somethinn funny
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Can t you see we re all having a good time here ?
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Come ofi it Michael You re drunk Brett said
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Bre eding be damned Who has any breeding an y .

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bu lls ? Aren t the bulls lov ely ? Don t ’ ’

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wen t ontalking .
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t an d listen ed
s fo r a while . Br ett

“ ”
I say Michael you might not be su ch a bloody ass
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l sh e interrupted I m not saying he s not righ t you
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I m not so damn drunk as I sounded he said
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“
I kn ow you re not
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Brett said , .

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We re none of us sober I said ,
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I didn t say anything I didn t mean .

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But you put it so badly B rett laughed , .

He was an ass though He came down to San Se , .

around B rett and just looked at her It m ade me damned .

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well sick .

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Mark you . Bret t s had afiair s with men before She
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Cohnfs lett ers to read I wouldn t read them . .

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Damned noble of you .

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No liste n Jake Brett s gone oil with men But they
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af ter
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w
rd a
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B r e tt said ll
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D amned go od chaps It sx a ,
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talk about it Mich ael an d I understand ea
. ch other .

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She gave me Robert Cohn s letters I wo hldn t r ead ’
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them .

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r ead min e ?
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I can t r ead letters Mike said
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Funny isn t it ? ,
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You can t read anything ’
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No You re wrong there I r ead quite a bit I

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r ead iw
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hen I m at home
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this thing now He s her e Don t spoil the fiesta.
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Well let him behave t hen
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He ll behav e I ll tell him

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You tell him Jake Tell him ei ther he must behav e,

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or get out .

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Yes I said it would be nice for me to tell him
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Look Brett Tell Jake what Robe rt calls you That
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is perfect you know ,
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Oh no I can t ,
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Go on We re all frien ds Aren t we
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Jake ?
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I can t tell him : It s too ridiculous
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I ll tell him .

good letter .

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I know I said “
He wrote me from San Sebastian
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That was nothing B r ett said He can wri te a , .

dam ned amusing letter .

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She made me write that She was supposed to be .
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ill .

I damned well was too ,

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Come on I said we must go in and eat ;
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How should I meet C ohn ? Mike said .

Just act as though no thing had happened .

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It s quite all right with me , Mike said
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Im .
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no t

If he says anything just say yo u were tight ,

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Q uite And th e funny

. thing is I think I was tigh t ” .
1 50 TH E SUN ALS O R ISE S
“
. Come on B r ett said Are these poisonous things
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paid f or ? I must bath before dinner e .

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We walked across the square It was dark and all .

ar o un d the square were the lights from the cafés under

the arcades We walked across the gravel under the
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trees to the hotel .

They went u p stairs and I stopped to speak with—

Montoya .

“
ell h ow did yo u like the bulls ? he a
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, s ked .

Good They were .

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They re all oo k h is head but
the y re n o t too
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What didn t you like about th em ?
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I don t know They just didn t give me the fee ling
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that t hey w ere so good .

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I kno w hat yo u m ean .

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They re all right’
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Yes Th ey re all right

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H o w did your friends lik e th em ?

Fine .

Good Montoya said,

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I went u p stairs Bill was in his room s tandin g on the

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balcony loo king ou t at the square I st o od besid e him . .

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Where s C o h n ? ’

Up stairs in h is room
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Ho w doe s h e feel ?
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Like hell naturally Mike was awful He s terrible

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when h e s tight ”
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He wash it so tight .

The hell he wasn t I know what we ’

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came t o th e café .

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He sobered up afterward .

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Good He was terrible I don t lik e Cohn God
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knows an d I think it was a silly trick for him to go

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I DO n ot know what time I got to bed I remember un .

dressing putting on a bathrobe and standing out on

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the balcony I knew I was quite drunk and when I

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came in I put on the light over the head of the bed an d

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started to read I was r eading a

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It was one o f th
I had read it before , but it
tr y be came very cl ear and the feeling o f pressure in m y
hm seemed to loosen Q was v er y dr unk and I did
. . not

I heard B r étt an d Robert Cohn come up the stair s .

Coh n said good night outside the door and went on up

to his room . I hea r d B r ett go into the room next do or .

M ike was already in bed He had come in with me an

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is
when it is light The hell th er e
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all out once and for six months I nev er

M
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ept with the electric light 06 That was another bright

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c ount on .

I thought I had paid for ever yt hing . Not like the

tr ibutio n a

any g d
oo I paid my. way into enough things that I
liked so that I h ad a good tim e Either you paid by
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learning about them or by experience or by takin g

, ,

In five years I thought it will seem just as silly

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as all

liked to see him hurt Cohn . I wished he would not do

 1 54 TH E S UN ALS O RI SES
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What r o t could hear B rett say it What

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rot ! yo u were with English y o u go t into th e

habit of using English expression s in your thinking The .

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a English spoken language the upper class es anyway —
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must have fewer w ords than the Eskimo Of course I .

didn t know anyt hing about the E skimo Maybe the

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Eskimo was a fine language Say the Cherokee I didn t . .

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know anything about the Cherokee either The English , .

talked with inflected phrases ; One phrase to mean ~

e ve rything I l iked them though I liked the way they

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talked Take Harris Still Harris was n o t the uppe r

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classes .

I turned on the light again and read I read the Tur .

i fi I k ew that w reading it in the

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g e n e n . n o o v er sen si
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tize d stat e o f my m in d af ter much too much brandy I'

would rem emb er it somewhere and afterward it would ,

seem as t h ough it had really happened to me I would .

always have it That was another good thing you paid

.

fo r and then had Some time along toward daylight I

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went to Sleep .

The next two days in Pamplona were quie t and there , ,

were n o more rows The town was getting ready fo r the

.

fiesta Workm en put up the gate posts that were to

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shut o ff the Side streets when the bulls were released
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from the corrals and came runhing through the stree ts
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in the morning on their way to

dug holes % d fitted in the timbers each timbe r numbered ,

fo r its regular place Out on the plateau beyond the

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town empl oyees o f the bull ring exercised picador horses -

lThe ring was rolled and spr inkled and carpen ters ,
te
a walk out to w
th d Brett had h er for

It was a good m or m n g there were high white clouds

,
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abov e the mountains It had rained a little in the nigh t

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and it was fr esh and cool on the pla teau and there w
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, as
a won der fu l view We all felt good and we felt healthy
e
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an d I felt q uite fr ien dly to Cohn

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upset about anything on a day like that .
 AT noon of Sunday the ,
oth of July , th efiesta ex
In
all day from the country but they ,

were assimilated in the town and you did not notice

them The sq uare was as quiet in the hot sun as on
.

any other day The peasants were in the outlying wine

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shops There they were drinking getting ready for the

.
,

fiesta They had come in so recently from the plains and

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th e hills that it was n ecessar y that th ey m ake their

shif ting in values gr adually . They could not start in

wine shops Money still had a d efinite v alue in hour s

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w
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or ked and bushels of grain sold Late in the fiesta it .

would not matter what they paid nor where th ey bought

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, .

Now on the day o f the starting o f the fiesta of San

streets of the town since early morning Going down .

the streets in the morning on the way to mass in the

cathedral I heard them singing through the open doors
,

’
people at the eleven o clock mass . San Fermin is also

I walked down the hill from the cathedral and up the

street to the café on the square It was a li ttle be fore.

noon Robert Cohn and Bill were sittin g at on e of the

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tables The marble topped tables and the white wicker

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chairs were gone They were replaced by cast iron tables

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and sev ere folding chairs The café was like a battleship V
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 1 58 T H E S UN ALS O RISES
you alone all morning to read without asking if you
wanted to order something A waiter came up as soon .

as I sat down .

“
What are you drinking ? I asked Bill and Robert .

”
Sherry Coh n said ,
.

”
Jerez I said to the waiter ,
.

Before the waiter brought the sherry the rocket that

announced the fiesta went up in the square It burs t .

and the r e was a gray ball o f smoke high up above the

Theatre Gayar r e acr oss on the other side of the plaza ,

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The ball o f smoke hung in the sky like a shrapn el burst ,

and as I watched another rocket came up to it trick , ,

ling smoke in the bright sunlight I saw the bright .

flash as it burst and another li ttle cloud o f smoke ap

p ea r ed By the time the
. second rocket had burst there
were so many people in the arcade that had been empty ,

a minute before that the waiter hol ding the bottle high
, ,

up over his head could hardly get through the crowd to,

our table People were coming into the square from all
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sides a n d down the street we heard the pipes and the

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iau p
r iau m u sic ,
ipes shrill and the dr ms pound th e
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ing , and behind them came the men and boys dancing .

When the fifer s stopped they all crouched down in the

street and when the r eed pipes and the fifes shrilled
,
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and the flat dr y hollow drums tapped it out agai n they

, , ,

all went up in th e air dancing In the crowd yo u saw .

only the heads and Shoulders of the dancers going up

In the square a man , bent over, was playing

!
a on

reed pipe and a crowd o f children were followin g him

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shouting and pulling at his clothes He came o u t of
, .

the square the childr en following him and piped them

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past the café and down a side street We saw hiS b lantk .
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1 60 THE SUN ALSO RIS ES
Fermin was translated from one church to another { in .
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th e proc ession were all the dignitaries civil and r eligioix s , .

We could n o t see them because the crowd was too great .

Ahead o f the formal procession and behind it dan ced th e .

dancing up an d down in the crowd All we could see of .

th e procession through the closely pressed people tha t

crowded all the side streets and curbs were the gr eat
giants cigar
,
store Indians
—
thirty feet high ,
Moors a , ,

They were all standing outside the chapel where San

Fermin and the dignitari es had passed in leaving a

inthem standin gbeside their resting fr ames and th e

“

dwar fs movin gwith their whacking bladders through th e

cense and people filing back into the church but Br e t t ,

was stopped just inside the door because she had no

hat so we went out again and along the street t hat ran
,

back from the chapel into town The str eet was lined .

on both sid es wi th people keeping th eir place at the cur b

took Bill an d m e by th e ar m s an d pu t us in th e cir cle .

Bill started to dance too They were all chanting Brett

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wanted to dance but they did not want her to 2

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wanted her as an image to dance around When .

sang m ar am ? rushed us
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into a wine shop -

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We Stood at the cou nter They had Bret t seated on

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a wine cask
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It was dar k in the wine sho p an d full of
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they drew the wine from casks I put down m oney for
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men pick ed it up and put it

I want a lea ther wine bottle Bill said -

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’ ”
There s a place down the street I said
. I ll go ,
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get a couple .

The dancers did not want me to go out Three of them .

were sitting on the h igh wine cask beside Brett teaching -

her to drink ou t of the wine skins They had hung a i

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wreath of garlics around her neck Some on e insisted

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song . Singing it into his ear . Beating time on Bill ’

s

I ex plained to them that I would be back Outside In .

th e street I went down the street looking f or the m op

that made leather wine bo ttles The crowd was pack ed
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o n th e sidewalks and many of the shops w ere shuttered ,

“

a n d I co ul d n o t find it I walked as far as the church,

.

looking on both sides of the street Then I asked a man .

and he took me by the arm and led me to it The shut .

Inside it smelled of fresh tanned leather and hot tar .

A man was stencilling completed wine skins They hung

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from the roof in bun ch es He took one down blew it up,.

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screwed the nozzle tight and then jumped on it ,

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“ ” ’
See ! It doesn t l eak .

I want another on e too A big one ,

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He took down a big one that would hold a gallon or

a e h ad of the wine skin and stood on the bota holding on

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“
What are you going to do ? Sell them in Bayonne ?
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No Drink out of them
. .

He slapp ed me on t h e back .
1 62 T HE S UN AL S O R I S E S
Good m an . Eigh t pesetas for the two . Th e lo west
”
pr I ce .

The man wh o was stencilling the new ones and tossing

them into a pile s topped .

“ “
It s true
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he said Eight pesetas is cheap
,
. .

I pai d and went ou t and along the street back to the

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wine shop It was darker than ever inside and very

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crowded I did n o t see Brett and Bill and some on e said

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,

they were in the back room At the coun ter the girl .

filled the two wine skins for me One held two litres -
. .

The other held five litres Filling them bo th cost three .

pesetas sixty centimos Some on e at the counter that I .

,

h ad never seen before tried to pay fo r th e wine but I , ,

fin ally paid fo r it myself The man wh o had w anted to .

pay then bought m e a drin k He would n o t let me buy .

o n e in return but said he would take a rinse o f the

, (

mouth from the new wine bag He tipped the big six -
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Ii tre bag up and squeezed it so the wine hissed against

the ba ck o f hi s throat .

All right he said and ha nded back the bag

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In th e back room Brett and Bill w§e sitting on bar

rels surrou nded by the dancers Everybody had his .

arms on everybody else s shoulders and they were all ’

,

singing Mike was sitting at a table with several men

.

in their shirt sleeves eating from a bowl o f tuna fish ,

-

c h o pped o ni ons and vinegar T h ey were all drinking .

bread .

“ ”
Hello Jake H ello ! Mike called
,
Come here I . . .

’
want yo u to meet my frien ds We re all having an hors .

I was introduced to the people at the table They .

supplied thei r names to Mike and sent for a fork for

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You want to see him ?
said .

”
Not m e, said Mike . This gen t .
”

up .

Come on .

In a back room Robert C ohn was sleeping quietly on

some wine casks It was almost too dark to see his face
-
. .

They had covered him with a coat and another coat

was folded under his head Around his neck and on his .

chest was a big wreath of twisted garlics .

“ ” “
Let him sleep the man whispered He s all r igl t
,
.
’
.

Two hours later Cohn appeared He came into the .

front room still with the wreath of garlics around his “

n eck Th e Spaniards shouted when he came in Cohn

. .

I must have been sleeping he said , .

”
Oh n o t at all Br ett said
, ,
.

”
You were only dead Bill said , .

’ ”
Aren t we going to go and hav e some supper ? Cohn

Do you want to eat ?

Yes Why no t ? I m hungry

.
’
.

”
Eat those garlics R obert Mike said , , . I say . Do

Cohn stood there . His sleep had made him quite all

’ “
Do let s go and eat ,
Brett said . I must ge t a
”
bath .

“Come o n Bill said Let s translate Brett to th e

,
.
’

”
hotel .

We said good bye to many people and shook h an ds

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with many people an d wen t out Outside it was dark ' . .

“ ”
What time is it do you suppose ? Cohn asked ,
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1 65

“
It s
’
to morrow
-

,
Mike sa id . Yo u ve been
’
asleep
two
”
days .

“ ” “ ”
No said Cohn what time is it ?
, ,
“ ”
It s ten o clock
’ ’
.

’
What a lot we ve drunk .

You mean what a lot we ve drunk You wen t to sleep ’

. .

Go ing down the dar k streets to the hotel we saw th e

sky rockets going up in the square D own the side street s
-
.

that led to the square we saw the square solid with

'

eo
p p le those in,
the centr e all dancing .

It was a big meal at the hotel It was the first meal .

of the prices being doubled for the fiesta and there wer e ,

several n ew courses Af ter the dinner we were out in

“

the town I remember r esolving that I would stay up

.

all night to watch the bulls o through the street s at

g
six o clock in the morning and being so sleepy that I
’
,

went to bed around four o clock The others stayed up ’

. .

My own room was locked and I could not find the

key so I went u p stai rs and slept on one of the beds in
,
-

night but I was too sleepy for it to

,

When I woke it was the sound of the

that announced the release of the bulls from the corrals
at the edge of town They would race through the .

streets and ou t to the bull ring I had been sleeping -

.

coat of Cohn s and went out on the balcony Down be

’
.

low the narrow street was em pty All the balconies

were crowded with people Suddenly a crow
.

d came down .

the street They were all running packed close together

.
, .

ng and behind them came more men running faster

ri ,

an d t en some stragglers who were really running

h B e .

hind th em was a little bar e spaee, and th en th e bulls.

 THE SUN ALSO RISES

out of sight aroun d the corner One man fell roll ed to .

,

the gutter and lay quiet But the bulls went right on
,
.

and did n o t notice him They were all running t ogether

. .

V
Af ter they went o u t o f sight a great roar came from
the bull ring It kept on Then finally the pop of the
-
. .

rocket that meant the bulls had gotten through the

people in the ring and into the corrals I went back in ‘

the room and go t into bed I had been standing on .

the stone balcony in bare feet I knew ou r crowd must .

h ave all been o u t at the bull ring Back in bed I went -

.
,

to sleep .

Cohn woke me when he came in He star ted to u n .

‘

dress and went over and closed the window because the
p eople o n the balcony o f the house just across the street
were looking in .

“
Did you see the Show ? I ask ed .

Yes We were all there

. .

”
Anybody get hurt ?
One o f the bulls go t into the crowd in the ring and
”
tossed six o r eight people .

“
H o w did Brett like it ?

W
there wasn t any time for it to ’

y .

I wish I d been up
’
.

We didn t know here you were We went to your

’
.

”
r oom but it was locked .

“
Where did you stay up ?
We danced at some club .

”
I go t sl eepy I said ,
.

My gosh ! I m sleepy n ow Cohn said

’
Doesn t ,
.
’

Bill o pened the door and put his head in .

 T H E S UN AL S O R I S E S
“
You ll be all right There s nothing but that hor se
’
.
’

part that will bother you and they re only in for a few ,
’

minutes with each bull Just don t watch when it s .

’ ’

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all
’
She ll be
’
right ,
Mike s aid . I ll look after

I don t think you ll be bored Bill said

’ ’
,
.

“
I m going over to the hotel to get the glasses an d
’

” “
the wine skin I said
-
See you back h ere Don t get
,
. .
’

”
cock eyed
-
.

“
I ll come along Bill said Brett smiled at us
’
,
. .

We walked around through the arcade to av oid the

heat of the square .

1 That Cohn gets me Bill said

“
,
.

In th e hotel on the stai rs we met Montoya .

“ “
”
Come on sai d Montoya ,
Do you want to meet .

”
Pedro Romero ?
“ ” “
Fine said Bill ,
Let s go see him .
’
.

We followed M ontoya up a flight and down

He s in room number eigh t Montoya explained

’
,
.

’ ”
He s getting dressed for the bull figh t -
.

Montoya knocked on the door and opened it It was .

a gl oomy room with a little light coming in f rom the

window on the narr ow street Ther e were two beds .

separated by a

in his bull fi gh ting -

c lothes . His jacket hung o ver
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TH E S U N A L S O R I S E S 1 69

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the back of a chair They wer e just finishing win ding

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his sash His black hair shone under the electric ligh t
. .

He wore a white linen shirt and the sword handler fin -

afi cion ados we were and that we wanted to

t ,

wish him luck Romero listened very seriously Th en

. .

he turned to me He . 6
er seen .

”
You go to the bull figh t he said in English -

, .

“ ”
You know English I said feeling like an idiot , , .

No he answered and sm iled

”
, , .

One of thr ee men who had been sitting on the beds

“
came up and asked us if we spoke French Would you .
,

like me to in terpret for you ? Is there anything you

would like to ask Pedro Romero ? ”

like to ask ? Th e boy was nineteen years old alone , ex

the bull figh t was to commence in twenty minutes

an d -
.

“
We wish ed him Mucha suerte shook hand s and went
”
'

, ,

as we shut the door .

“
He s a fine boy don t you think so
’
,
’
Mont oya ask ed .

’ ”
He s a good looking kid I said -

, .

”
He looks like a torer o Montoya said , . He Has the

“
He s a fine boy
’
.

{the wall in my room took it and the field glasses,locked,

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1 70 TH E SUN ALS O R I S ES
It was a good b ull figh t Bill and I were very excited
-
.

abo ut Pedro Romero Montoya was sitting about ten

.

places away After Romero had killed his first bull

.

Montoya caught my eye and nodded his head This was .

real on e There had n o t been a real on e for a long

.

time Of the other two m atad ors on e was very fair

.
,

and the other was passable But there was no com .

parison with Romero although neither of his bulls was

,

much .

Several times during the bull figh t I looked up at -

Mike and Brett and Cohn with the glasses They ,

.

seemed to be all right Brett did n o t look upset All

. .

three were leaning forward on the concrete railing in

Let me take the glasses Bill said .

Does Cohn look bored ? I asked .

That kik e l" ?

w

Ou tsi de the ring after the bull figh t was over

'

, ,

could no t move in the crowd We cou ld n o t make our .

way th rough but had to be moved with the whole thing,

and the pipe music was shrill and everywhere the flow ,

of th e crowd was broken by patches o f dancers The .

dancers were in a crowd so you did not see the intricate

,

play of the fee t All you saw was the heads and shoul
.

ders going up and down up and down Finally we go t ,

.
,

o u t of the crowd and m ade fo r the café

-
The wait er .

saved chairs for the others and we each o rdered an ,

What do you suppose that dance is ? Bill asked .

 1 TH E SU N A L S O R I S ES

“Robert
Coh n did Mike put in You wer e qu ite .
,
”
gr een R obert,
.

“
The first horse did bother me Cohn said ,
.

Yo u wer en t bored were you ? asked Bill

'

’
.
,

Cohn lau ghed .

Tb N o I wasn t bo r ed I wish you d forgiv e me that

‘
. .
’ ”
.
’
.

“ ’ ” “
It ”s
_
all right Bill said so long as yo u we r en
, t ,
’

bor ed
s

“
H i
’
d dnet look bored Mike said I thought h e ,
.

”
go in g to be sick .

“
I fiever felt that bad It was just for a minute . .

“
4 1 I thought he was going to be sick You weren t .
’

”
lior ed were you Robert ?
, ,
“
Let up on that Mike I said I was sorry I said ,
.

”
He was you know He was positiv ely g reen
, . .

Oh shove it along Michael

, ,
.

’
You mustn t ever ge t bored at your fir st bull -
figh t,

good
“
h ea

W
He said B rett was a sadist just because
l thy
,
-

stomach
on t be heal thy long ’

Bill got Mike started on something else than Cohn

The waiter brought the ab sinthe glasses
”
.
”

.
sh e has a

y ou really lik e it ? Bill asked Cohn .

’
I can t say I liked it I think it s a wonderful .
’

”
Gad, yes ! What a spectacle ! B r ett said .

I wish they didn t have th e hor se part C ohn

” ’
, sai d .
 TH E S U N A L S O R I SE S £ 7 3
“
’
They r e n o t important Bill said After a while , .

”
y o u n ever notice anything disgusting .

“ ”
It is a bit strong just at the start Brett said , .

“Ther e s a dr eadful moment for m e just when the bull

,

”
sta rts for the horse .

“
The bulls were fine Cohn said ,
.

”
They were very good Mike said ,
”
I want to sit down below next time B r ett drank , .

She wants to see the b u ll figh ter s close by Mike said -

, .

They are something Brett said That Romer o

,
.

”
lad is just a child .

He s a damned good looking boy I said

’
When
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,
.

D
we were up in his room I never saw a better look ing -

How old do you suppose he is P

”
N ineteen or twenty .

”
' Just imagine it .

than on the fir st Brett sat between Mike and me at the

.

the whole show I do not think Brett saw any other

.

sh elled technicians It was all Romero There were two

. .

o ther matadors but they did not count

,
I sat beside .

Brett and explained to Brett what it was all about I .

told her about watching the bull not the horse wh en the
,
, ,

bulls charged the pi cadors and got her to watch ing the ,

p icador place the point o f his pic so that sh e saw wh at

it was all abo ut so that it became more something that
,

was going on with a definite end and less o f a spectacle ,

with unexplained horrors I had her watch ho w Romero .

and how he held him with the cape and t amed him ”
 1 74 TH E SUN AL SO R ISES

how Romero avoided every brusque movement and

saved his bulls fo r the last when he wanted them n ot ,

winded and discomposed but smoothly wor n down .

She saw h o w close Romero always worked to the hull ,

and I pointed ou t to her the tricks the other bull figh ter s -

used to m ak e it look as though they were working closely .

She saw why sh e liked Romero s cape work and why ’

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she did n o t like the others .

Romero never made an y co ntortions always it was ,

straight and pure and natural in line The others twisted .

themselves lik e corkscrews their elbows raised and leaned

, ,

against the flanks O f the b u ll after his horns had passed ,

to give a faked look O f danger Afterward all that was .

,

bull figh tin g gave real emotion because he kept

’

Q the absolute purity Of line in his movements and always

er o s -

quietly and calmly let the horns pass him cl o se each t

B re tt saw h o w something that was beautiful done close

to the bull was ridi culous if it were done a little way 03 .

I told her ho w since the death of Joselito all the bull

figh ter s had been developing a t echn ic that simulated
this appearance O f danger in order to give a fake emo
tio n al feeling while the bull figh ter was really safe
"

.
,

“
I ve never seen
’

’
You won t until he gets frightened I said , .

“
’ ”
He ll never be frightened Mike said He knows, .

too damned much .

 IN the m orning it was raining A fog had come ov er
.

the mountains from the Sea You could n o t see the tops
.

o f the mountains The plateau was dull and gloomy,

.

and the shapes o f the trees and the houses were changed .

I walked ou t beyond the town to 160k at the weather .

The bad weather was coming ov er the mountai ns fr om

The fiags i n the square hung wet from the white pole!
and the banners wer e wet and hung damp against the
front of the houses and in between the steady drizzle the
,

rain came down and drov e ev ery one under the arcades .

an d made pools O f water in the sq uare and t he streets

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w
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et and dark and de s erted ; yet the fiesta kept up with

with people sitting out of the rain watching the con

course O i B asque an d Nav ar r ais dancers and singer s,
and afterward the V al Carlos dancers in their costumes
danced down the s treet in the rain the drums sounding
,

and damp and the chiefs of the bands r idin g

,

wet the horses coats wet in the ram The crowd was
,
’

in the cafés and the dancers came in too and sat their
{
, , ,

tight wound white legs under the tables shaking the

-

and purple jackets Over the chairs to dry It was rai n .

ing har d outside .

I left the crowd in the café and went over to th e hotel

to get shaved for din ner I was shaving in my r oom
.

when there was a knock on th e door .

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 T H E S UN AL S O R IS E S
“
C om e in ,
”
I called .

“
How are you ? he said .

“Fine ” I said .
,

No b u lls to day -
.

” “ ”
No I said nothing but
, , r ai n .

O v er at the Ir u fia .

Look ,
”
he said .
“
Do you know the American

Yes , I said . Ev er ybody kn ows the Amer ican

( m bam do r .

“
He s here in town , now
’
.

” “
Yes, I sai d Everybo dy .
’
s seen them .

”
I’v e id He didn t ’
se en them too , ,
Montoya m . say

Sit do n I said w
Le t m e sm d for a drink
,
.
“
.

NO I ha ve to go
,
.

I finished shaving an d put my face down into th e

bowl and washed it with cold wa ter Montoya was stand .

h g ther e looking more embar rasse d .

“ ” “
Look he said I ve just had a message
,
.
’

at the Grand Ho tel that they want

”

dinn er .

“ “ ’
Well I said it can t hur t Mar cial any
, ,
.

Marcial has be en in San Sebastian all day He dr ov e l .

'
in a Car this morning with Mar quez I don t think
’
m .

di ey ll be back to
’

Montoya stood em bm He wanted me to m y .

”
D on t giv e Romer o
’
the m assage , I said .

”
You think so ?
{7 8 TH E S UN ALS O RI S ES
Absolutely .

Montoya was very pleased .

“
I wanted to ask yo u because you were an American ,

he said

W
.

“
0

’ ’
That s what I d do .

‘ ”
Loo k said Mon toya People take a boy like that
,
. .

They don t know hat h e s worth They don t know

’ ’
.
’

what h e means Any foreigner can flatter him They . .

start this Grand Hotel business and in on e year they re ,

’

Like Algabe no I said ,

.

”
Yes like Algaben o
,
.

There ’
er ieau

gi ve
“
W
Yes,

him
I said
Or crazy like Gallo
ell , I said
”

the m e
“

ssag
Th e Old o nes get fat

e
”

He s such a fine boy said M ontoya

'
’
.

it s easy All yo u have to do is n o t

”
,

H e ought
’

.
.

,
.
.

to stay with his o wn people He shouldn t m ix in that ’

.

”
stu fl .

“
Won t yo u have a drink ? I asked
’
.

” “
NO said Montoya I have to go
,
He wen t out ,
. .

went down stairs and ou t the door and took a walk

-

around through the arcades around the square It was .

still i ain in g I looked in at the Ir u r ia fo r the gang and

‘
‘
.

they were n o t there so I walked o n aro und the square ,

and back to the hotel They were eating dinner in the .

down stairs dining room

- -
.

They were well ahead Of me and it was n o use trying

to catch them Bill was buyi ng shoe shines for Mike
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1 80 THE S UN ALS O RI SES

abov e Gibraltar He started bull figh tin g in M alaga in
.
-

th e bu ll fightin g school there

-
He had only been at it .

three year s! The bull figh t critic joked him about the -

number of M alagu efio expressions he used He was nine .

teen years Old he sai d His Older brother was with him
‘

.
,

as a banderillero but he did not live in this ho tel He

, .

him in the ring I told him only three It was really

. .

only two but I did not want to explain after I had made
,

Where did you see me the other time ? In M adr i d ?

”
Yes I lied I had read the accounts of his two ap
,
.
,

pe ar a n ces in Madrid in the b ull figh t papers so I wa s -

all r ight .

“
The first or the second time ?
I was very bad he said
“
The second time I was
, .

”
bet ter You rem ember ?
. He turned to the cr itic .

G He was not at all embarrassed He talked of his work .

something altogether apart from him self There was .

nothing conceited or braggartly about him .

“
I lik e it very much that you like my work he said , .

But you haven t seen it yet TO morrow if I get a ’

.
-

, ,

”
goo d bull I w ill try and
,
show it to you .

bull figh t critic nor I would think he was boasting

-
.

“ ” “
I am anxious to see it the critic said I would ,
.
“

”
like to be convinced .

W
”
,
¢ c
He doesn t like my work much’
Romero turned to .

me He was serious
. .

The cr itic ex plain ed that he liked it very

‘

that so far it had been incomplete .

ait till to m or r ow, if a good one comes

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1 81

Have you seen the bu lls for tO -

morr ow ? the critic
asked me .

Pedro Romero leaned f orward .

“
What did you think of them ?
” “
Very nice I said,
About twenty six arrobas .
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.

” ’
Very shor t horns Haven t you seen them ?.

“ ”
Oh y es said Romero
, ,
.

They won t weigh twenty six arrobas said th e critic

’
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. .

”
NO said Romero
,
.

”
They ve go t bananas fo r horns the critic said
’
,
.

”
You call them bananas ? asked Romero He turned .

”
to m e and smiled You wouldn t call them bananas ?
.
’

“ ” ”
NO I said
,
They re horns all right ’
.

”
They re very short said P edro R Om er O
’
V ery ,
.
,
’
very short Still they aren t bananas
.
,
.

“ ” “
I say Jake Brett called from the next table ybu
, , ,

hone deserted us .

“ ’
Just temporarily I said We re talking bulls, .
. .

You ar e superior .

Tell him that bu lls have no horns Mike shouted: ,

He was drunk .

“ "
Drunk I said ,
Borracho ! Muy borracho ! .

You m ight introduce your friends Brett said She ,

.

had not st opped looking at Pedro Romero I asked .

them if they would like to have coffee with us They .

both stood up Romero s face was very brown He had

.
’
.

I introduced them all around and they started to sit

do wn but there was n ot en Ou gh roo m so we all moved
, ,

ov er to the big table by the wall to have co fl ee Mike .

Th ere was a lot of drunken talkin g .

 s T H E S UN AL SO RIS ES
’

a
r e .

“
; Tell him I think writing
”
on tell him
,
Tell him I m ashamed of being a writer:
.
’

Pedro Romer o was sitting beside Brett and listening

to h er .

“ ”
Go on . Tell him ! Bill said .

”
This gentleman I said is a writer , , .

‘ “ ”
Romero was impressed This other one too I .
, ,

said pointing at Cohn

,
“
He looks like Villalta Rom ero said looking at , ,
“
Bill . Rafael doesn t he look like Villalta ? ,
’

“ ” ’
I can t see it the critic said , .

”
Really R omero said in Spanish ,
He l ooks a lot .

”
like Villalta What does the d r u nk en o n e do ?

that why he drin ks ?

Is
NO He s waiting to marry this lady
.
’
.

”
Tell him b u lls have no horns ! Mike shouted , v r ey
dr unk fr om the other end of the table
,
.

“ ”
What does he say ?
M dr q
”
’
s

m
.

“
ake Mike called Tell him bulls hav e no horns !
,
.

”
You understand ? I said .

”
Yes fi

’
I was su re he didn t so it was all right , .

Tell him Brett wants to see him put on those gr een '

“ants ”
,

“
Pipe down Mike ,
.

Tell him Brett is dying to know how he can get in tr

Pipe down .

During this Romero was fingeri ng his glass and talk i

.

ing with Bre tt Brett was talking Fr ench and he was .

 TH E S U N AL S O RIS ES
'

I said all I had to say the other night Mike

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“ ”
I m n o t on e of you literary chaps : Mike stood
’

“
“
hakily and leaned against th e table I m n o t clev er .
’ ‘
.

’ ’
But I do know when I m n o t wanted Why don t you .

see when you re n o t wanted Cohn GO away Go away

’
.
, ,
’
for God s sake Take that sad Jewish face away Don t
’
. .

”
you think I m right ? ’

He looked at us .

“
Sure I said Let s all go over to the It ur in ’ ‘

. .
,

N0 Don t you think I m right I love that woman

.
’ ’
.

Oh don t start that again D O shove it along,

,
’
.

Michael Brett said

,
.

“ ’
Don t you think I m right Jake ? ’
,

Cohn still sat at the table His face had the sallow .
,

yellow look it got when he was insulted but somehow ,

her oics Of it It was his afl air with a lady Of title

'

. .

”
m right Listen you He turned to Cohn
’

k now I ! .
,
“ ”
Go away ! GO away now !
“ ”
But I won t go Mike said Cohn ’
, , .

Th en I ll make you ! ’”
Mike started toward him
‘
around the table C ohn stood up and took O fl his glasses
. .

He Stood waiting his fa ce sallow his hands fairly low , , ,

proudly and firmly waiting for the assault r eady to do ,

battle for his lady lov e .

“
I gr abbed Mike Come on to the café I said Yo u .
,
.

can t hi t him here In the hotel

’
.

“ ” “
Good ! said Mike Good idea ! .

We started O fl I looked back as Mike stumbled up the

'

stairs and sawCohn putti n g his glasses on again Bill was .

sitting at the table pouring another glass of Fu ndador .

Brett was sitting looking st raight ahe ad at nothin g .

Ou tside on t he square it had stopped raining and the

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THE SUN AL S O RI S E S is;

There was
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m oon was trying to get through the clouds .

the crowd was massed on the far side Of the square where -

up fire balloons A balloon would start up jerkily on a

.
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great bias an d be torn by th e wind or blown against

,

the houses Of the square Some fell into the crowd Th e . .

magnesium flared and the fireworks exploded and chased

about in the crowd Ther e was n o on e dancing in the .

Brett came ou t with Bill an d joined u s We stood in .

the crowd and wat ched D on Manuel Or qu ito the fir e

,

,
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works king stan ding on a little platform carefully start

, ,

ing the balloons with sticks standing above the heads of ,

the crowd to launch the balloons O ff into the wind Th e .

wind brought them all down and D on Manuel O r qu ito s ,

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face was sweaty in the light O f his complicated firew orks

that fell into the crowd and charged and chased Sput ,

ter ing and cracking between the legs Of the people Th e

, .

people shouted as each new luminous paper bubble

careened caught fire and fell
, ,
.

“
They re razzing D on Manuel Bill said
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How do you know he s D on Manuel ? Brett said

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His nam e s on the programm e D o n Manuel Or

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qu ito the piro tecnico o f esta ciudad

,
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Globos illum in ados Mike said A collection of ,

.

”
l b ill i
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g o e s u m n ad os Th a t s what the paper
. said .

The wind blew the band music away .

“ ”
I say I wish on e would go up Brett said
,
Th at ,
.

”
D on Manuel chap is furiou s .

“
He s probably worked for weeks fixing them tO go
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all sp llin g Hail to San B ill said
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, e ou t .

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Globos illum in ados Mike said A bu n ch of bloodyR
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“ ’ ”
Come on said B rett We can t stand her e
,
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Her ladyship wants a drink Mike said
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“
H ow yOu know things
”
Brett said , .
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Inside the café was crowded and very noisy NO one

, .

noticed u s come in We could not find a table Ther e . .

was a great noise going on .

“ ”
Co m e o n let s get out Of here B ill said
,
’
, .

Outs ide the paseo w as going in un der the arcade

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There were som e English and Americ ans from Biarritz

'

in sport clothes scattered at the tables Som e Of the .

women stai ed at the people going by with lorgnons .

We had acquired at some h e a friend Of Bill s from, ,

’

Biarritz She was staying with another girl at the Grand

.

Hotel The other girl had a headache and h ad gone to

.

Here s the pub Mike said It was the Bar Milano

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a small tough bar where you could get food and wher e
,

they danced in the back room We all sat down at a .

table an d ordered a bottle of Fundador The bar was .

This is a hell O f a place B ill said , .

5 “ ”
It s too early
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Let s take the bottle and come back later Bill said
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“ ”
I don t want to Sit her e on a nigh t like this
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“ ’ ”
Let s go and look at the English Mike said I , .

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love to look at the English .

“ ” “
They re awful Bill said ’
Where did they all com e
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f rom ?

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“ ” “
They come from Biarritz Mike said They come ,
.

to see the last day o f the qu ain t little Spanish festa ” .

“ ”
I ll festa them Bill sai d
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You re an extraordinarily beautif ul girl

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Mike .

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tu rn ed tO Bill s friend .
‘

hen did you com e he re ?

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Com e Off it , Michael .
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been damned hard on Mike ,
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Yes But he didn t n eed to be a swine

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”
Everybody behaves ba dly I said Give them th e ,
.

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p roper chance .

“
You woul dn t behave badly Brett looked at me
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“
I d be as big an ass as Cohn I said
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Darling don t l et s talk a lo t O f r o t

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All right Tal k about anything y o u like

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Don t be diffi cult You re the only person I ve got
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an d I feel rather awful to night -

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You ve go t Mike
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Yes Mike Hasn t he been pretty ?

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Well I said it s been damned hard on Mike hav
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in g Cohn around and seein g him with you . .

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Don t I know it darlin g ? Please don t make me
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f eel any worse than I do .

Brett was nervous as I had never seen her before .

S h e kept looking away from me and looking ahead at

t h e wall .

“
Want to go for a walk ?
”
Yes Come on
. .

I corked up th e Fundador bo ttle and gave it to the

"
have on e more drink o f that
t S “
Brett said My .
,
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n erves are rotten .

Come on said Brett ,

.

As we came ou t th e door I saw Cohn walk out from

under the arcad e .

“
He was there Brett said ,
.

He can t be away from you

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Poor devil !
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I m n o t sorry for him : I hate him myself
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I hate him too, ,
she shivered .

We walk ed arm in arm down the side street away fi om

the crowd and the lights O f the squ are The street was .

light coming ou t from their door s onto the black wet ,

street and sudden bursts Of music

,
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“
Want to go in ?

We w
alked ou t across the wet grass and onto the ston e

W
stone and Brett sat down Across th e plain it was dark
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and we could see the mountains The wind was high up .

and took the clouds across the moon Below u s ere th e .

dark pits O f the fortifications Behin d wer e the tr ees

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and the shadow Of the cathedral and the town silh ou

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etted against the moon .

“
Don t feel bad I sai d
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“ ’ ”
I feel like hell Brett said
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Don t let s talk .
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We looked out at the plain The long lines Of trees wer e.

dark in the moonlight There were the ligh ts of a car

”

on the road clim bin g the mountain Up o n the top Of

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the mountain we saw the lights Of the fort Below to .

the left was the river It was high from the r ain and
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black and smooth Trees were dark alon g th e b anks

°

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We sat an d look ed o u t Brett stared straight ahead

. .

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Suddenly sh e shivered .

“ ’ ”
It s cold .

Wan t to walk back ?

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Through the park .

e climbed down
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It was clouding over again In
. .

the par k it was dark un der the trees .

D O you still love me Jake ?

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 ought to stop it .

” ’
How can I stop it ? I can t stop things Feel that ? .

Her h and was trem bling .

“ l
I m like th at a l thr ough
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”
You oughtn t to do it ’
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8 I can t help it I m a goner n ow anyway Do n t

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’

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You don t
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t he way he s ac ted ?
’
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Oh d arlin g don t be difi enlt

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h at do you
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i t s meant to hav e tha t damn ed Jew about , and

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I can t just stay tight all the time .

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Seem older I noticed his skin It was clear and smooth
. .

and very brown There was a triangular scar on his .

cheek bone I sawhe was watching Br ett He felt there

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was something be tween them He must have felt it ;

when B rett gave him her hand He was being very care .

ful I think he was sure but he did no t want to make

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,

You fight to morrow ? I said -

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Yes he said Algaben o was hurt tod ay in Ma
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dr id Did you hear ?

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“ ” “
NO I said Badly ?
,
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He shook his head .

“
Nothing Here he showed his hand Brett reached.
,
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out and so r ead the fingers apart .

“ ” “
Oh ! he said In English you tell fortunes ? ,
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Sometim es D o you mind ?
NO I like it H e spread his hand flat o n th e table
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”
Tell me I live for alway s and be a millionaire , .

He was still very po lite but he was surer Of him ,

“ “
self .Look he said do you see any bulls in my , ,

hand ?
He laughed His hand was ve ry fine and the wrist .

was small .

“
There are thousands O f bulls Brett said She was ,
.

n ot at all nervous n ow She looked lovely . .

“ ” “
Good Romero laughed ,
At a thousand duros .

” “ ”
apiece he said to me in Spanish
,
Tell me some more . .

“ ’ ” “ ’
It s a good hand Brett said I think he ll live a
3
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,

7hn g time .

“
Say it to me N o t to your friend . .

I said you d live along time ” ’

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I kn ow it Romero said I m never going to die
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saw it . He shook his head .

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N 0 3 Don t do that The bulls are my best frien ds )

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I translated to Brett .

You kill your friends ? sh e asked .

Yes, he said Pretty well sometimes But I must

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n o t let anybody know It would be very bad a tore ro

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wh o speaks English ”
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“ ”
Why ? asked Brett .

It would be bad The people would no t like it

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No t yet .

“
Why n o t ?
They would n o t like it Bull figh ter s are n o t like .
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th at
.

“
What are bull figh ter s like ?
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af .

He laughed and tipped his hat down over his eyes and
changed the angle O f his cigar an d the expression o f his
face.

“
Like at the table he said I glanced over He had
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m imicked exactly the expression o f Nacio n al He smiled .

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his face natural again NO I must forget English
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Don t forget it yet Brett said

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NO ?
N0.

All right .

I would like a hat like that Brett said 6 ,

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Good I ll get you on e

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Right See th at you do

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I will I ll get you on e to night

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Sit down I said ,
. I must go and fin d our frien ds
and bring them here .
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He looked at me It was a final look to ask ii it wer e
.
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un derstood It was understood all right

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“ “
Sit down Brett said to him
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You must teach m e
.

went out . The hard eyed people at the bull fighter

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tab le watched me go It was not pleasant When I came

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back and looked in the café twenty minutes later B r ett

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an d Ped r o Romero were gone The coff ee glasses and

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our thre e empty c ognac glasses were on the table
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waiter came wi th a cloth and picked up the glasses and

m opped 06 the table .
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“
The dirty swine Bill said I m going to clean , .
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t hem out .

“ ”
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Bill Edna looked at me

, Pleas e don t go in again .
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B ill They re so stupid

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” ’ “
That s it said M ike They re stupid I knew that
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was what it was ”

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“ ’
They can t say things like that about Mike Bill ,

D o you know them ? I asked Mike .

N o I never saw them They

. . say they know me .

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I won t stand it , B ill said
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’
Come on Let s go over to the Suizo I said
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,
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They re a bunch of Edna s friends from Biarritz
’ ’
,

Bill sai d .

of
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One them s Charley Blackman from Chicago , ,

I was never in Chicago Mike said ,

.

Edna started to laugh and could n o t stop .

“
Take me away from here she said yo u bankrupts , ,
.

What kind of a r ow was it ? I asked Edna We

”
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were walking across the square to th e Suizo Bill was .

’
I don t know what happened but some on e had the ,

poli ce called to keep Mike ou t of the back room There .

were some people that had known Mike at Cannes .

”
What s the matter with Mike ?
’

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Pr obably he owes them money I said That s ,
.

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what people usually get bitter abo ut -

In front o f the ticket booth s o u t in the square there

were two lines o f people waiting They were Sitti ng on .

w
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chairs or crouched on th e ground with blanke ts and ne s

papers around them They were waiting for the ickets .

to open in the mor ning to buy ti ckets for the bull figh t -
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2

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The night was clearing and the moon was out . Some of

At the Café Suizo we had just sat down and ordered

’
h er e S
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B r e tt ? he asked .

I don t know ’
.

She was with you .

She must have gone to bed .

’
She s n o t .

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I don t know where She is
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His face was sallow under the ligh t . standin g

”
Tell me where Sh e is .

” “
Sit down I said I don t know where she is
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The hell yo u don t !
You can shut your face .

”
Tell me where Brett is .

’
I ll n o t tell you a damn thing .

You know where she is .

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If I did I wouldn t tell you .

”
Oh go to hell Coh n Mike called from the table s
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Brett s gone off with the bull figh ter chap They re
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You shut up .

”
Oh go to hell ! Mike said languidly
,
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Is that where Sh e is ? Cohn turned to me .

Go to hell
She was with you Is that where she is ? .
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Go to hell !
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I ll tell me h e §epped forward
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u ck

the
pavement . AS I started to get on my feet he hit m e
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twice I went down backward under a table I tr ied to

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get up and felt I did n o t hav e any legs I f elt I must .

get on my f ee t and try and hit him M ike helped me up . .

Some on e poured a carafe o f water on my head Mike ,

. .

had an arm around me and I found I was sitting on a ,

chair Mike was pulling at my ears

. .

“ ”
I say you were cold Mike said
, ,
.

”
Where the hell were you ?
Oh I was around ,
”
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’
You didn t want to mix in it ?
“He knock ed Mike down too Edna said .
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He didn t knock me out Mike said ’
I j ust lay ,
.

Does this happen every night at your fiestas ? Edna

“
asked Wasn t that M r Cohn?
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” ’
.

“ “
I m all right I said
’
My head s a little wobbly ,
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’
.

There were several waiters and a crowd of people

”
Vaya 1 said Mike Get away Go on . . .

The waiters moved the people away .

“ ”
It was quite a thing to watch Edn a said n

, . He must
”
be a boxer .

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(
He is .

“
I wish Bill had been here Edna said I d like to ,
.
“ ’

have seen Bill knocked down too I ve always wanted , .

’

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to see Bill kn o cked down He s so big . .

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SS
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I w as hoping he would knock down a waiter Mike ,
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d and get arrested I d like to see Mr Robert Coh n
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in jail .

NO I said ,
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Oh n o said Edna ,
You don t mean that
, . .

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I do thou gh Mike said I m not one of these chaps
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likes bein g kn ocked about I never play games ev en . . .
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were
and I
stopped for a long tim e and watched It was all strange . .

Then I went on and my feet seemed to be a long way

,

o ff and ever yt hing seemed to come from a long way 03

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, ,

and I could hear my feet walking a great distance away .

I had been kicked in the head early in the game It was .

like that crossing the square It was like that going up .

room . came out and

met me in the hall .

“ ” ’
Say he said go up and see Cohn He s been in
, ,
.

”
a jam and h e s asking for you
,
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“ ”
The hell with him .

GO on GO on u p and see him

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I did not want to clim b another flight of stai rs .

”
What are you looking at me that way for ?
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“
I m not looking at you GO on up and see Cohn
’
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He s in bad shape .

“ ”
You were drunk a little while ago I said , .

“ “
I m drunk n ow Bill said
’ ”
But you go up and see,
.

hn He wants to see yo u
. .

W
”
All right I said It was just a matter of climbing
,
.

airs I went on up the stairs carrying my phanJ

.

’
tom suitcase I walked down the hall to Cohn s room
. .

The door was shut and I knocked .

“
h o is it ?
”
Barnes .

Come in Jake ,
.
 Forgive you hell ,
.

Plea se fo rgive me Jake ,

.

I did n o t say anything I stood there by the doo r . .

I was cr azy Yo u must see h o w it was

. .

”
Oh that s all right
,
’
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I couldn t stand it abo u t Br e tt

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.

”
You call ed me a pimp .

I did n o t car e I wanted a h o t bath I wanted a hot

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bath in deep water .

“
I know Pleas e don t remember it I was crazy
.
’
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Tha t s all right .

He was crying His voice was funny He lay there in

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his whi te Shirt on the bed in the d ark His polo sh irt . .

“ ”
I m going away in th e morning
’
.

He was crying without making any n oise

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I ve been

her down here Brett treat ed me as though I were a per

’
icct stranger I just co u ldn t stand it We lived together
. .
y
at San Sebastian I suppose .
y ou know it . I can t stan d
’
 “ ” “ ”
Well I said so long
, , .

“
I guess it isn t any u se ’
,
he said . I guess it isn t ’

”
an y d amn u se .

“What ? ”

’
SureI said It s all right
,
. .

K CL felt so terribly I ve been through such hell Jake

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’
, .

Now ev er y t g s gone ver y g . .

~
He rolled over sat on the edge ,
Of the bed and then
,

So long Jake , ,
”
he said . You ll Shake hands won t
’
,
’

Sure Why not ? .

We Shook hands In the dark I could . n ot see his face

“
Well I said see you in the morning
, ,
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“ ’ ”
I m going away in the mo rning .

”
Oh y es I said
, , .

I went ou t C ohn was standing in the door of

. th e

Are you all right Jake ? he asked ,

.

“
”
Oh yes I said,
I m all right ”
, .
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I could n ot find the bathroom Af ter a while I found .

it There was a d eep stone tub I turned on the taps

. .

and th e wa ter would n o t run

,
I sat down on the edge .

of the bath tub When I got u p to go I found I had taken

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carrie d them down stairs I found my room and wen t -

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inside and undressed and got into bed .

oing by i the street I

w
I woke ith a h eadache and the n OiSe Of th bands
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remember d I had p r om i ed
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g n e s .

to take Bill s friend Edna to see th e buns go thr ou gh

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drunk star ted out from the fence with a blouse in his
hands He wanted to do capework ith the bulls The
. .

tw o policemen tore ou t collared him on e hit him with , ,

a club and they dragged him against the fence and stood
,

flattened ou t agai nst the fence as the last of the crowd

and the b ulls went by There were so many people run .

ning ahead O f the bulls that the mass thickened and

slowed up going thr ough the gate into the ring and as ,

the bulls passed galloping together heavy muddy, , .

sided horns swinging one sho t ahead caught a man in

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the running crowd in the ba ck and lift ed him in the air .

Both th e man s arms were by his Sides his head went

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back as the horn went in and the bull lif ted him and ,

then dropped him The h u ll picked another man run .

ning in front but the m an disappeared into the crowd

, ,

and the crowd was through the gate and ihtO the ring
with the bu ls behind them The red door O f the ring
l .

went shut the crowd o n the outside balconies of t h e

,

hull ring were pressing through to the inside there was

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a shout then another Sh out

,
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The man who had been gored lay face down in the

could not see the man because the crowd was so thick
'

around him From inside the ring came the shouts

. .

Each shout m eant a charge by some bull into the crowd ,

You could tell by the degree O f intensity in the shout

'

how bad a th ing it was that was happening Then the .

rocket went up that meant the steers h ad gotten the

bulls ou t of th e ring and into the corrals I left the fence .

and started back toward the town .

Back in the town I went to the café to have a second

coffe e and some buttered toast The waiters were sweep .
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Anything happen at the encierro ?
I didn t see it all One man was badly cogi do
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”
Where ?
”
Her e I pu t one hand on the sm all of my back
.

and the other on my chest where it looked as though,

the horn must have come through The waiter nodded .

He went away and came back with the long handled -

oo fiee and milk pots He poured th e milk and coff ee

. .

It came out Of the longspouts in two streams into the '

big cup The waiter nodded his head

. .

”
Badly cogido throu gh the back he said He pu t ,
.

the pots down on the table and sat down in th e chair

Me ? What are b ulls ? Animals Brute animals . .

He stood up and put his hand o n the sm all o f his back . .

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Right through the back A cornada right through the
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back For fun yo u understand
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cofiee pots Two men wer e

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waiter shouted to them They were grave looking One

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shook his head Muerto he called
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The waiter nodded his head The two men went on . .

They were on some errand The wai ter came over to .

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You hear ? Muerto Dead He s dead With a horn
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It s bad
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Not fo r me , th e waiter said . NO fun in that for

me .

Later in the day we learned that th e man who as

killed was named V i cente Girones and came from near ,

Tafalla The next day in the paper we r ead that he was

.

twenty eight years O ld and h ad a farm a wife and two

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children He had continued to come to the fiesta each

.

year after h e twas married The n ext day his wife came .

in from Tafalla to be with the body and the day after ,

there was a service ln the chapel O f San Ferm i n and the

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coflin was carried to the railway station by member s of

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th e dancing and drinking society of Tafalla The drums .

marched ahead and there was music on the fifes and

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behind the men who carried the coffin walked the wife

over f o r the funeral The coffin was loaded into th e bag

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gage car o f the trai n and the widow and the two chil
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dren rode Sitting all three together in an open third

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class railway carriage The train start ed with a jerk and

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of the plateau and out into the fields of grain that blew
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bull wh o killed Vicente Girones was n amed Boca

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was Number 1 1 8 O f the bull breeding establish -

ment O f Sanchez Taber no and was killed by Pedro ,

Romero as the third bull O f that saine afternoon Hi s .

ear was cut by popular acclamation an d giv en to Pedro

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Romero h o in turn gave it to Brett wh o wrapped it
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in a handkerchief belongin g to myself and left both

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I heard them y ell .

”
That was Edna Bill said , .

waving their shi rts .

a

body over .

They took about twenty chaps to the in fir m ar y,

What a morning ! B ill said The damn police kept .

arresting chaps that wanted to go an d commit suicide

”
with the bulls .

“
The steers took them m in the end Mike said , ,
.

”
It took about an hour .

It was really about a quarter of an hour Mike O h ,

jec te d .

Oh go to hell Bill said

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You ve been in the war
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It was two hours and a half for me ”

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Where s that beer ? Mike asked .

What did you do with the lovely Edn a ?

We took her home just now She s gone to bed .
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H ow did She like it ?

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Fine e told her it was just like that every morn

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She was impressed Mike said

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She want ed u s to go down in the ring too BIll ,

She likes action .

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I said it wo u ldn t be fair to my credi tors Mike
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What a morning Bill said And what a night !
,
.

How s your jaw Jake ? Mike asked

’ ”
, .

”
Sore I said ,
.

Bill laughed .

“ ’
Why didn t you hit him with a chair ?
” “
You can talk Mike sai d He d hav e knocked you
,
.
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ou t too
,
I nev er sawhim hit m e I rather think I saw
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 TH E SUN ALS O RISE S h og

him just before and then quite suddenly I was sitting

,

d own in the street and Jake was lying under a table

,
”
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“ ”
Where did he go afterward ? I asked .

”
Here sh e is Mike said ,
Here s the beau tiful lady .
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with th e beer ”
.

Th e cham bermaid put the tray with the beer bottles -

and glasses down o n the table s i

“
N ow bring up three more bo ttles Mike said , .

”
Wheredid Cohn go after he hit me ? I asked Bill .

’ ”
Don t yo u know about that ? Mike was opening a
beer bo ttle He poured t h e beer into on e of the gl asses
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.
,

holding t h e glass close to the bottle .

“ ”
Really ? Bill asked .

Why he went in and found Brett and the bull figh ter -

chap in the bull figh ter s room and then he massacred

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,
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the poor bloody b ull figh ter
,
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“
N 03
,

Yes .

What a night ! Bill said .

He near ly killed the poor bloody bull figh ter Then ,

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Cohn wanted to take Brett away Wanted to make an .

honest woman of her I imagine Damned touching ,

.

S cen e .

_
He took a long drink of the beer .

“
He is an ass .

What happened ?
Brett gave him what fo r She told hi m O E I . .

I ll bet She was Bill said

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,
.

Then Cohn broke down and cried and wanted to ,

Shake hands with the bull figh ter fel ow He wanted to

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shake hands with Brett too ,
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“
I kn ow He Shook hands with me
. .

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Did be ? Well they werent hav in g an y of it The
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bull figh ter fellow was rather good

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. He d idn t say much,
’

but he kept getting up and getting knocked down again .

Cohn couldn t knock him out ’

. It must have been
dam ned funny .

“
Where did you hear all this ?
Brett I saw her this morning . .

”
What happen ed fin ally ?
It seems the bull figh ter fellow was Sitting on the
.
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bed He d been knocked down about fifteen times and

’
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, .

he wanted to fight some more Brett held him and .

wo uldn t let hi m get up He was weak but Brett

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,

couldn t hold him and h e got u p Then Cohn said he

’
,
.

wouldn t hi t him again Said he couldn t do it Said it

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wou ld be wicked SO the bull figh ter chap sort Of rather .

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stagger ed over to him Cohn went back against the wall . .

““ ’
SO yo u won t hit me ?
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‘
I d be ashamed to
’ ’
No said Cohn ,
’
. .

So the bull figh ter fellow hit him just as hard as he-

could in the face and then sat down o n the fl oor

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He , .

co uldn t get up B r ett said Cohn wanted to pick him

’
,
.

up and carry him to the bed He said if Cohn helped .

ll
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him h e d kill him and
’
he d ki him anyway this mornin g ,

if Cohn wasn t ou t of town Cohn was crying and Brett

_

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,
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had told him Off and he wanted to shake hands I ve ,
.
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told yo u that before .

“ ”
Tell the rest Bill said ,
.

“
It seems the bull figh ter chap was Sitting on th - e

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floo r He was waiting to get strength en ou gii co get

.

up and hit Cohn again Brett wasn t having any shaking .

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hands and Cohn was cr ying and telling her how much
,

he love d her an d she was telling him n o t to be a ruddy

,

ass Then Cohn leaned dé wn to shake hands with the

.

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face again .
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“
I m going in the room Try and get a little sleep
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. .

“
We go too long ithout Sleep in these fiestas I m .
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going to start n o w and ge t pl enty Of sl eep Dam n bad .

thing n o t to ge t Sleep M ak es yo u fr ightfully nervy

. .

“ ”
We ll see yo u at noon at the Ir u ria Bill said
’ ‘

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,

Mike went ou t the door We heard him in the next .

He rang the bell and the chambe rmaid came and

knocked at the door .

“
Br ing up half a dozen bo ttles O f beer and a bottle

W
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of Fundador Mike told her
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,
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“ ”
Si Senorito
, .

I m going to bed Bill said

’
Poor Old Mike I had
,
. .

ahell Of a r ow about him last night ”

.

“ h ere ? At that Milano plac e ?

Br et t and Mik e ou t o f Cann es once He was damned ,

.

”
nasty .

“
I know the story .

didn t Nobody ought to have a right to say things

’
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W
t Mike .

’
That s what m akes it bad .

They oughtn t to have an y right I wish to hell

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they did n t have I m going to bed

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“ ”
as anybody ring ?
I don t think ’

A m an the ru nway .
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Is Cohn gone ? Brett asked .

” “
Yes Bill said
,
He hired a car . , .

The beer came Brett started to lift the glass m u g

.
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an d h er hand shook She saw it and smiled and lean ed

.
,

Good beer .

Ver y good I said I was ner v ous about Mike I

, . .

did not think he had Slept He must have bee n drink; .

ing all the time but he seemed to be under control

, .

”
I heard Cohn had hurt you Jake Brett said , , .

”
NO Knocked me out That was all
. . .

”
I say he did hurt Pedro Romer o Brett said
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He ,
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hurt him most badly .

He ll be all right He won t go out of the room

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“ ”
D oes he look badly ?

p p
o out and see you chaps for a minute .

“ ”
I s he going to fight ?
“
Rathen I m going with you if you don t mind
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’
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How s friend ? Mike asked He had not .

liste ned to that Brett had said .

“Brett got a bull fi h ter ” he sai d

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She had a Jew
s g
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e named Cohn but he turned out badly

, .

Brett stood up
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“
I am n ot goin g to lis ten to that sort of rot from you
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So do I l
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He says the bulls are all right .

’
They re g
’
Is that San Fermin s ?
B rett looked at the yellow wall of the chapel .

“ ”
Yes Where the Show started on Sunday
. .

Let s go in D O yo u mind ? I d rather like to pray a

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’

”
little fo r him o r something .

We went in through the heavy leather door that

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moved very lightly It was dark inside Many people . .

were praying You saw them as your eyes adjusted .

them selves to the half light We knelt at on e of the -

.

long wooden benches Af ter a little I felt Brett stiffen .

up at the tree tops in the wind The praying had not -

.

been m uch of a success .

“
Don t know why I get SO nervy in church Brett
’
,

said . any
We walked along .

“
I m d amned bad for a r eligious
’

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said I ve the ’
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“ ”
You know B

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at all I j u st feel happy about him

. .

Goo d
I ish th e wind would drop though ,
.

It s liabl e to go down by five O clock

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”
Let s hope ’
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”
Yo u might pray I laughed ,
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Oh r o t said Brett
,
Maybe it works fo r som e
,
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people though You don t 1

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religious .
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“
I m rett reli
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Oh r o t said Brett Do n t S ’
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to day TO day s going to be bad enough as

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It was the first time I had seen her in the Old happy ,

careless way Since before She went o ff with Cohn We .

were back again in front O f the hotel All the tables .

were se t n ow and already several were filled with peo

,

ple eating .

“
D O look after Mike B rett said Don t let him ,
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get too bad .

Your fr ien ts haff gone u p stairs the German maitre -

d h Otel said i English He was a con tinual eave s

’
t .

Thank much Have anything else

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o
y ,u so .
y ou to
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say ?
NO m a am ’

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”
Good said Brett ,
.

Save u s a table for three I said to the German , .

He smiled his di rty little pink and hi te smile - -

.

”
ISS madam eating here ?
”
NO Brett said,
.

Den I think a tah u l fo r two will be en u fi

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’” “
Don t talk to him Brett said Mike must have ,
.

W
”
been in bad shape she said on the stairs We passed ,
.

Montoya o n the stairs He bowed and did n o t sm ile . .

“ ”
I ll see yo u at the café Brett said Thank you
’
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, ,
”
so much Jake , .

e had stopped at the floor ou r rooms were o n

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Sh e .

went straight down the hall and into Romero s room ’

.

She did n o t knock She Simply opened the door; went .

in and closed it behind her

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,
‘
’
I stood in front of the door O f Mike s r oOm and kno cked .
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W TH E

The r e as no answer I tried the knob and it opened

e
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In side the room was in gr eat disorder All the bags

were opened and clothing was strewn aro u nd
S U N A L S O R I SE S
.

..

Ther e .
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were empty bo ttles beside the bed Mike lay on the

’

his eyes an d loo ked at me .

NO I m quite warm.
’
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“ ”
Don t go I have n t got ten to sleep yet
’
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’
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You ll sleep Mike Don t worry boy
’
, .
,
.

”
Brett s got a bull figh ter Mike sai d
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But -

,
. her
”
Jew has gone away .

“ ”
D amned good thing what ? ,
“
Yes Now go to sleep Mike You ought to get some
.
,
.

“
I m just start ing I m go in g to get a lit tle sleep
’
.
’
.

He shut his eyes I went out of the room and turned .

the door to quietly Bill was in my room .

paper .

“
See Mike ?
Yes .

’ ”
Let s go and eat .

I won t eat down s tairs with that German head

’

waiter He was dam n ed snotty when I was getting Mike

.

”
u p stairs
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“
He was snotty to us too ,
.

Let S go o u t and eat in the town

’
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We went down the stairs On the stairs we passed a .

girl comin g up w ith a cov ered tray .

“ ” ’
There goes Bret t s lunch Bill said , .

“ ”
And the kid s I said
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I don t know ”
I wonder if they ever launder them .

I don t think so It m i ght spoil the color

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”
The blood must stiff en them Bill said , .

“
Ho w on e doesn t
”
mi
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Fun ny Brett said
,
. nd the

Belowin the narrowpassage O f the callejon the sword .

handlers arranged everything All the seats were full . .

Above all th e boxes were full There was n o t an empty

,
.

seat except in the Presid ent s box When he came in ’

.

the fight wou ld start Across the smooth sand in the .

,

high doorway that led into th e corrals the bull figh ter s ,
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wer e standing their arms furled in their capes talking

W
, , ,

waiting fo r the signal to march in across the aren a

. .

Brett was watching them with the glasses .

”
Here ou ld yo u lik e to look ?
,

I loo ked thro ugh the glasses and saw the three matal
’

dors Romero was in the centre B ehn o n te o n his left

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, ,

Marcial on his right Back O f them were their people .

,

and behi nd the banderilleros back in the passageway ,

and in the open space o f the corral I saw the picadors _

, .

Romero was wearing a black suit His tri cornered hat .

was low down over h is eyes I could n o t see his face .

clearly under the hat bu t it looked b adly mar ked He , .

was l ooking straight ‘ahead Marcial was smoking a .

-

cigarette guardedly holding it in his hand Belmonte

, .

looked ahead his face wan an d yellow his long wolf jaw
, ,

out He was looking at nothing Neither be n or R O

. .

mero seemed to have anything in common wi th the

oth ers Th ey were all alone The Presid ent came in ;
. .

there was ih andclappin g above u s in the g rand stan d

‘

and I handed the glasses to Brett There was applause . .

The music started Brett looked through the gim es

. .

“
Here take them she said
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Thr ough the glasses I saw B elmonte speak to R omer o .

Marcial straightened up and dropped his cigarette and , ,

looking straight ahead their heads back their free ar ms

, ,

swin ging the three matadors walk ed ou t Behind them

,
.

came all the procession Opening o u t all striding in , ,

step all the capes furled everybody with free arms

, ,

swingin g and behind rode the picador s their pics ris

, ,

ing like lances Behind all came the two trains of mules
.

an d the bull ring servants

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The matadors bowed hold .

,

ing their hats on before the President s box and then

,
’
,

came over to the barr era below u s Pedro Romero took .

o fl his heavy gold brocaded cape and handed it over th e

-

fence to his sword handler He said something to the

-
.

sword handler Close below u s we saw Romer o s lips

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were puff ed both eyes wer e discolored His face was

,
.

discolored and Swollen The s word han dl er took the .

-

cape loo ked up at Brett and came over to u s and

, ,

hand ed up the cape .

“
Spread it ou t in front of ydu I said
”
,
.

b ack Shook his head and said something A man beside

, ,
.

me lean ed over toward Brett .

“ “
He doe sn t want you to spread I t he said
’
. You .

should fold it and keep it in your lap .

Romero did n ot He was speaking to

look up at us
.

his fo r mal cape over to

th em and smiled his ,

wolf smile that was onl wi Rom ero leaned

o ver e bar rera and asked fOr the wat er j -

handler brought it and Romero poured water over the

percal e of his figh tin g cape and then scu fl ed the lower
'

folds in the sand with his slippered foot .

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o
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“
W ha t s
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TH E S U N A L S O R I S E S

that for ? Brett asked

To give it weight in th e win d
f His fa ce looks bad ”
Bill said
”
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,
'

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“ ” “
He feels very badly Brett said , . He should be in

first h ull was Behn o n te s Belm on te was very

The
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good But because he go t thir ty thousand pesetas and

.
_

people had stayed in line all night to buy tickets to see

him the crowd demanded that he should be more than
,

Behn on te 3 great attraction is working close

’
ve ry good .

to the bull In b u ll figh tin g they speak of the terrain of

.
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the bull and the terrain of the bull figh ter As long as a -
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bull fighter stays in his own terrain he 15 comparatively

ull This way h e gave the .

sensation of coming trag dy P eople went to the cor r ida

e .

W
to see Belmonte to be given tragic sen sations and per
, ,

haps to see the death of Belmonte Fifteen years ago .

they said if you wanted to see Belmonte you should go

killed more than a thousand bulls lm n he retired th e .

legend grew up about how his bull figh ting had been -

an d when he came out of retirement the public were dis

appointed because no real man could work as close to
the bulls as Belmonte was su pp osed to h ave alone not ,

Belmonte imposed condition s and insisted that

Also
his bulls should not be too large nor too dangerously ,

armed with horns and so the elemen t that was n eces

,

sary to give the sensation of tragedy was not there and ,

monte who was sick with a fistula as Belmonte

, ,
had
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achden ce Of bull -
figh tin g, and he knew that the
sin cer ity
o f his own bull -
figh tin g would be SO se t O ff by
the false
aesthetics O f the bull figh ter s of the decadent period that
-

he would only have to be in the rin g His return from .

retirement had been spoiled by Romero Romero did .

ways sm ooth ly calmly and beautifully what he

, , , , ,

lmonte could Only bring himself to do n ow some

,

times The crowd felt it even th e people from Biarritz

.
, ,

even the Am e rica n ambassador saw it finally It was , .

a competition that B ehn o n te would n o t enter because

it wou ld lead only to a bad horn wound o r death Bel .

nio n te was n o longer well enough He n o longer had his .

greatest mom ents in the bull ring He was n o t sure that

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ther e were any gr eat moments Things were n o t the .

[

same and n owlife only came in flashes He had flashes .

of th e Old greatness with his bulls but they were n o t Of ,

value b ecau se he had di scounted them in advance when

he ha d picked the bulls out for their safety getting out

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o f a motor and leaning o n a fence looking over at the ,

herd o n the ranch of his friend th e bull breeder So he -

.

had two small manageable bulls ithout much bur ns;

,

and when he felt the greatness again com ing just a little ,

o f it throug h the pain that was always with him it had ,

been discount ed an d sold in advance and it did not ,

give him a good feeling It was the greatness but it did

.
,

n ot make bull figh tin g wonderfu l to him any more

-
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ity he did in front O f her all that afternoon Never once .

e mad e it stronger that way and did ,

it for himself too as well as for her Because he did

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dors take the bull in turn after each charge he makes
at a picador Belmonte was the first Marcial was th e
. .

standing at the left O f the horse The picador h is hat .

,

down over his eyes the shaft of his pic anglin g Sh ar pi

,
e

toward the bull kicked in the spurs and held them an d

W
,

with the reins in his left hand walk ed the horse forward
toward the bull The hu ll was watch ing Seemin gly he
. . .

watched the hite horse , but really he watched the tri

the bull star t to~

turn his head . He did not wan t ,
to

the bull s eye The bull charged with the reflex charged
’
.
, ,

and found not the flash of color but a whi te horse and a ,

man leaned far over the horse shot the steel point Of ,

the long hickory shaft into the hump of muscle on the

bull s Shoulder and pulled his horse sideways as he
’
,

pi voted o n the pic making a wound enforcing

,
the Iron ,

into the bull s shoulder making him bleed for Belmonte

’
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,

The bull did not insist under the iron He did n o t .

really want to get at the horse He turned an d th e .

group broke apart and Romero was taking him ou t wi th

his cape He took him ou t softly and smoothly and
.
,

the n stopped and standing Squar ely i n front o f the bull

, ,

ofi er ed him the cape The bull s tail went up and h e

.
’

charged and Romero moved his arms ahead O f the bull

‘

, ,

wheeling his feet firm ed The dampened mud weighted

,
.
,
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cape swu n g Open and full as a sail fills and Romero ,

v

pivoted with it just ahead Of the bull : At the end Of the

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this w e on the other

ahead of the bull were all one

slow and so controlled .

the bull to sleep He .

made fo ur veronicas like that an d finish ed with a half ,

ver onica that turned his back on the bull and came

on his ar m and the bull watchin g his b ack going away

, .

In his own b u lls he was perfect His first bull did n ot .

see well After the first two passes with the cape R o
.

e y fine could happen with a bull that could not see

v r

the lures but the President would not or der him t e

,
‘

’ ”
Why don t they change him ? Brett asked .

’ ’
They ve paid for him They don t want to lose their
.

m on ey .

“
It s har dly f ai r to Romero
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"

Watch ho w he handles a bull that can t see the .

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colo r .

“
It s the sort of thing I don t like to s ee
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It was n o t nice to watch if you cared anything abou t

.

the per son w h o was doing it With the b u ll who could

.

not see th e colors of the capes or the scarlet flannel sf ,

the muleta , Romero had to make the bull consent with

his bo dy He had to get so close that the bull saw his
. -

body and would start for it and then shift the bull s
, ,
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ch ar ge m th e fl ann d an d fin ish ou t th e pass n th e clasfis

i
manner The B iarritz crowd did not like it They
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f acing the bull his shirt ripped out from under
, his

red sword hilt tight between his shoulders his head ,

going down and his legs settling .

“ ”
There he goes Bill said ,
.

His hand still up ,

h e spoke to the bull The hull gather ed
.

slowly then all over suddenly four feet in the air

, , , .

They handed the sword to Romero and carrying it ,

blade down t h e muleta in his other hand he walked

, ,

over to in front o f the President s box bowed straight ’

, ,

the sword and muleta .

“ ”
Bad on e said the sword handler
,
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”
He mad e me sweat said Romero ,
. He wiped off

Romer o wiped his lips It hurt . him to drink out of the

j g
u He. did n o t loo k up at us .

him when Romero s last bull came in It was the bull

’
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that had sprinted o u t and killed the man in th e m om in g

During Romero s first bull his hurt face had been

’

v ery noticeable Everything he did showed it All the

. .

concentration o f the awkwardly delicate working with

the bull that could n o t see well brought it ou t The figh t .

knith Cohn had n o t touched his spir it but his face had
‘
been sm ash ed an d his body hur t He was wiping all .

W
that ou t n ow Each thi n g that he did with this bull
.

wiped that ou t a lit tle clean er It was a good bull a

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,

big b u ll and with horns and it turned and re cha rged

, ,

easily and surely : He was what Romero wanted in bu lls .

h en he had finish ed his wor k with the muleta and

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w eady to kill the crowd made him go on They did

as r , .
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not want the bull killed yet they did not want it to be ,
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over Romero went on It was like a course in bull

. .

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figh tin g All the passes he linked up all complet ed all
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, ,

slow templed and smooth There were n o tricks and

.
I
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n o m ystification s There was n o brusqueness And each . .

pass as it reached the summit gave you a sudden ache

inside The cr owd did n o t want it ever to be finished
. .

The h ull was squared on all four feet to be killed and ,

Romero killed directly below u s He killed n o t as he .

had been forced to by the last bull but as h e wanted ,

to . He profiled directly in front of the bull drew the ,

sword out of the folds o f the muleta and sighted along

the blade The h ull watched him Romero spoke to the
. .

bull and tapped on e of his feet The bull charged and .

.

Romero waited for the charge the muleta held low sight , ,

ing along the blade his feet firm Then without takin g ,
.

a step forward he became on e with the bull the sword

, ,

was in high be tween the shoulders the bull had followed ,

the lowswung flannel that disappeared as Romero

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lurch ed clear to the left and it was ov er The bull tri ed ,

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to go forward his legs commenced to settle he swung

, ,

from side to side hesitated then went down on his knees

, , ,

and Romero s older brother lea n edf or war d be hind him

’

and drove a short knife into the bull s neck at the base ’

o f the horns The first time he missed He drove the

. .

knife in again and the bull went over twitching an d

, ,

r igid Romero s brother holding the bull s horn in one

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hand the kn ife in the other looked up at the President s

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box Handkerchiefs were waving all over the bull r ing

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The President looked down from the box an d w

. aved \

his handk erchief The brother cut the notched black .

c ar from the dead bull and trotted over with it to R o

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ear from his brother and held it up

towar d the P r esident The President bowed and R o
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f
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mero running to get ahead of the crowd came toward

, ,

us He
. leaned up against the barrera and gave the ear
to Brett He nodded his head and smiled The cr owd
. .

You liked it ? Romero called .

other and smiled Brett had the ear in her hand

. .

“ ”
Don t get bloody Romero said and grinned The
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, , .

cr owd wanted him Several boys sh outed at Brett The

. .

cr owd w as the boys the dancers and the drunks

, Ro , .

mero turned and tried to get through the crowd They .

were all around him trying to lift him and put him on '

their shoulders He fought and twisted away and

.
,

started running in the midst of them toward the exit

, , .

He did n o t want to be car ried on people s shoulder s ’

.

But they held him and lifted him It was uncomfort .

gate He had his hand on somebody s sho ulder He

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looked around at us apologetically The crowd run .

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ning went out the gate with him

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We all three went back to the hotel Brett went up .

stairs Bill an d I sat in the down stairs dining room and

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ate some hard boiled eggs and drank several bottles of

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beer B elmonte came down in his street clothes with

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his manager and two other men Th ey sat at the nex t .

table and ate B elmonte ate very little They were

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TH E S U N ALSO R ISES
When do yo u go back ? I asked .

Af ter a . Iittle whil e Bill said : Well it was a swell ,

somethin g doing all the time .

“
Sure ,
I said . I d believe anything
’
. Including

What s the matter ? Feel low?

’

”
Low as hell .

Have another absinthe Here waiter ! Another .

,
”
absin the fo r this senor .

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feel lik e hell I said ,
.

m “
Drink it slow ,

It was beginning to get dark The fiesta was going o n .

.

I began to feel dr unk but I did n o t feel any better .

“
Ho w do you feel ?
I feel like hell .

Have a nother ?
“
It won t do any good ’
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Try it You can t tell ; maybe this 13 the one that

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gets it Hey waiter ! Another absinthe for this senor l
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,

I poured the water directly into it and stirred it in

stead o f lettin g it drip Bill put in a lump of ice I . .

s tirred the ice around with a spoon in the brownish ,

cloudy mixture .

“
H o w is it ?
”

”
Fine .

Don t drink it fast th at way It will make you

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sick .

I set down the glass I had not meant to drink it fast. .

”
I feel tight .
 That s what you w
’
anted wasn t it ? ,
’

Sure Get tigh t Get over your damn depression

. . .

”
Well I m tight Is that what yo u want ?
,
’
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”
Sit down .

“
I won t sit down I said
’ I m going over to the ,
.
’

”
hotel .

I was very drunk I was drunker than I ever r em em .

a

bered having been At the hotel I went u p stairs Brett s

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door was open I put my head in the room Mike was

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sitting on the bed He waved a bottle . .

“ ” “ ”
Jake he said,
Come in Jake .
,
.

I went in and sat down The room was unstable nu .

l ess I looked at some fixed point .

“
Brett you know She s gone off with the bull
,
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”
fighter chap .

N0 .

Yes She looked fo r yo u

. to say good bye They went
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.

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on the seven o cl ock train .

“ ”
Did they ?
“
Bad thing to do Mike said She shouldn t hav e ,
.
’ s

”
done it .

“
No .

Have a drink ? Wait while I ring for some beer .

“I m drunk ” I said “I m going in and lie down

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,

Are you blind ? I was blind myself ”

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“ ”
Yes I said I m blind
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Jak
I went ou t the door and i n to my own room and la) ‘

o n the bed The bed wen t sailing o ff an d I sat up in

.

bed an d l ooked at the wall to make it stop Outside in .

the square the fiesta was going on It did n o t mean .

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anything Later Bill and Mike came in to get me to

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9 34 TH E SUN AL SO RIS ES
H
’
e s asleep Better let him alone
. .
.

”
He s blind as a tick Mik e said They went out
’
, . .

I got up and went to the balcony and looked out at

the dancing in the square The world was not wheeling
.

any more It was just v er y clear and bright and in

.
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clin ed to blur at the edges I washed brushed my hair.

, .

I looked strange to myself 1n the glass and went down ,

stai rs to the dining room -

.

“ ”
Here he is ! said B ill Good old .

’
o u wouldn t pass out
y .

“
Hello you old drunk Mike said
, , .

“ ”
I got hungry and woke up .

“Eat some soup ” Bill said .

,

Th e three of us sat at the table and it ,

 CHAPTER ! I!

IN the morning it was all over The fiesta was fin .

’
ish ed I woke about nine o clock had a bath dressed
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and went down stairs The squa r e was em pty and there
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were no people on the streets A few children were pick .

ing up rocket sticks in the square The cafés were just

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open ing and the waiters were carrying o u t the c om :

for table whi te wicker chairs and arranging them aroun d

the marble topped tables in the shade o f the arcade
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.

They were sweeping the streets and sprinkling the m

I sat in on e o f th e wicker chairs and leaned back co m

whit e paper annou ncements o f th e un loading o f the bull s

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and the big schedules of special trains wer e still up o n

the pillars of the arcade A waiter wearin g a blue apron .

came ou t with a bucket of water and a cloth and co m ,

m en ced to tear down the notices pulling the paper o ff ,

in strips and washing and rubbing away the paper that

stuck to the S tone Th e fiesta was over . .

I drank a cofl ee and after a while Bill came over I .

watched him come walking across the square He sat .

down at the table and ordered a coffee .

“ “ ”
Well he said it s all over
,
’
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”
Yes I said ,
When do you go ? .

I don t know We better get a car I think Aren t

’
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,
.
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y o u going b ack to Pari s ?

“
b/ N o I can stay away another week I think I ll go ’
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to San Sebasti an .

“
I want to get back .
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2 38 SUN ALSO R ISE S

What s Mike going to do ?

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“
He s going to Saint Jean de Luz
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“
Let s get a car a n d all go as far as Bayonne You
’
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can get the train up from there to night -

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“
Go od Let s go after lunch
’
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“ ”
All right I ll get the car
'

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We had lunch and paid the bill Montoya did n o t .

come near u s On e of the maids brought the bill The

. .

car was outside The ch au fl eu r piled and strapped the

.

bags on top of the car and put them in beside him in

the front seat an d we got in The car went out of the .

square along through the side streets o u t under the

, ,

trees and down the hill and away from Pamplona It .

did n o t seem like a very long ride Mike had a bottle .

of Fun dado r I only took a couple o f drinks We came

. .

over t e mountains a n d out of Spain and down the

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white roads and thr ough the ov e r foliaged wet gr een , , ,

Basque country and finally into Bayonne We left Bill s

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baggage a t the station and he bought a ticket to Paris

, .

His train left at seven ten We came ou t of the station

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The car was stan din g out in front .

“
What shall we do about the car ? Bill asked .

“
Oh bother the car Mike said
,
”
Let s just keep
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the car with u s .

“ ”
All righ t Bill said
,
Wh ere shall we go ? .

”
Let s go to Biarritz and have a drink
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.

”
Old Mike the spender Bill said ,
.

We drove in to Biarritz and left the car outside a

very Ritz place We went into the bar and sat on high
stools and drank a whiskey and soda .

“ ”
That drink s mine Mike said
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,
.

”
Let s roll for it
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So we rolled poker dice out of a deep leath er dice

cup Bill was out first roll Mike lost to me and handed
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240

“
She hasn t any money with her ? I asked
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W
I shouldn t think so She n ever h as any money
’
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She gets five hundred quid a year and pays three hun
dred and fifty o f it in interest to
“
I suppo se they get it at the source said Bill ,
.

Quite They re n o t really Jews

. e just call them
’

Hasn t She any at all with her ? I asked

’
.

I hardly think so She gave it all to me when She .

Well ,
Bill said ,
we might as well have another

Damned good idea Mike said One never gets ,

.

”
anywhere by discussing finances .

“
No
”
said B ill
,
Bill and I rolled for the next two
.

r oun ds Bill lost and paid

. We went ou t to the car . .

“ ” ’
Anywhere you d like to go , Mike ? Bill asked .

Let s take a drive It might do my credit good

’
. .

Let s drive about a little

’
.

’
Fine I d like to see the coast Let s drive down
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’
.

”
towar d Hendaye .

“
I haven t any credi t along the coast
’
.

Yo u can t ever tell said Bill

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,

We drove ou t along the coast road There was the .

green o f the headlands the white red roofed villas , ,

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patch es o f forest and the ocean very blue with the tide
,

out and the water curling far o u t along the beach We .

drove th rough Saint Jean de Luz and passed throu gh

villages farther down the coast Back o f the rolling .

country we were going through we saw the mountains

we had come over from Pamplona The road went on .

ahead Bill looked at his watch It was time for u s to

. .

go back He knocked on the glass and told the driver

.

to turn around Th e dr iver backed the car out into the

.
 T H E S UN A L S O R I S ES 2 41

gr ass to turn it In b ack o f u s wer e the woods below a

.
,

stretch of meadow then th e sea ,

.

At the hotel where Mike was going to stay in Saint

Jean we stopped the car and he go t ou t The chau f l .

feur carried in hi s bags Mike stood by the side of the .

car .

“
Good bye you chaps Mike said
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,
It was a damned 3 ,
.

fine fiesta .

“ ”
So long Mike Bill said, , .

”
I ll see you around
’
I said , .

”
You can
’
Don t worry about money Mike said , .

”
pay for the car Jake an d I ll send you my share
, ,
’
.

”
So long Mike ,
.

So long you chaps You ve been damned nice

, .
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.

We all Shook hands We waved from the car to Mike . .

H e stood in the road watching We got to Bayonne just .

before the train left A porter carried Bill s bags in . ,

’

from the consigne I went as far as the inner gate to the.

So long fella , ,
”
So long kid ! ,

It was swell I ve had a swell tim e

’ .

Will yo u be in P ar is iqB
No I have to sail on the 1 7 th So long fella!
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”
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,

So long old kid N 7 3

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B e went in through th e gate to the train The porter .

wen t ahead with the bags I watched the train pull out . .

Bill was at one of the windows The window passed th e .

,

rest of the train passed and the tracks were empty 1 ,

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went outside to the car

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“
H ow much do we owe y ou ? I asked the driver .

The price to Bayonne had been fixed at a hundred and '

pesetas .

“
Two hundred pesetas .
 3 43 TH E S UN ALS O R ISES
“
How much more will it be if you dri v e me to Sh
Sebastian on your way back
“ ”
Fifty pesetas .

’
Do n t kid me .

Thirty fiv e pesetas -

“ ”
’
It s n o t worth it I said Drive me to the Hotel , .

”
Panier Fleur i .

At the hotel I pai d the driver and gave him a tip .

The car was powdered with dust I rubbed the rod case .
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through th e dust It seemed the last thing that con .

ne ct ed me w i th Spain and the fiesta The d river pu t .

the car in gear and went down the street I watched it .

turn o ff to t ake the road to Spain I went into the hotel .

and th ey gave me a room It was the same room I had .

slept ih when Bill and Cohn and I were in Bayonne

'
.

That seemed a very long time ago I washed ch anged

. .
,

my shirt and went out in the town ,

At a newspaper ki osque I bought a copy of the N ew

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York H er ald and sat in a caf é to read it It felt strange .

to be in France again There was a safe subur ban feel .

,

in g I wished I had gone up to Paris with Bill except

.
,

t with
ir ou gh fiestas for a while It would be quiet in .

San Sebastian The season do es not open there u ntil

.

August I could get a good hotel room and read and

.

swim There was .

children sent down with their nurses

before the season open ed In the evening there wou ld be .

han d concerts under the trees across from the Catt

Marinas I could Sit in the Marin as and listen
. .
l

H o w does on e eat inside ? I asked the wai ter

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f
b .
e

side the café was a restaurant .

“
Well V ery well On e eats v ery well
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 THE S UN ALSO RISES
I would ever see him again I only wanted a few good
'
.

Fr en ch friends in Bayonne to make me welcome in

case I Should come back there again I knew that if .

they remembered me their friendship would be loyal .

At Irun we had to change trains and Show passports .

I hated to leave France Life was so simple In France

. .

I felt I was a fool to be going back into Spain In Spain .

about anything I felt like a fool to .

it but I stood in line with my pass

,

port opened my bags fo r the customs bought a ticket

,
“

, ,

went through a gate climbed onto the train and after

, ,

forty minutes and eight tunnels I was at San Sebastian .

Ev en on a h o t day San Sebastian has a certain ear ly

m orning quality The trees seem as though their leaves
.

were never q u ite dry The streets feel as though they

.

had just been sprinkled It is always cool and shady

.

on certain streets on the h ottest day I went to a hotel .

in the town where I had stopped before and they gave ,

me a r oom with a balcony that opened o u t above the

roofs o f the town There was a green mountainside be
.

I unpacked m y bags and stacked my books on the

table beside the head o f the bed put ou t my Shaving
.
,

thin gs hung up some clothes in the big a r moire and

, ,

made up a bundle fo r the laundry Then I took a shower .

in th e bathroom and went down to lunch Spain had .

no t changed to summer time so I was early I set my

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,
.

watch again I had recovered an hour bv coming to

.

SebaStiaII .

As I went in to the dining room the con cierge b r ought

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me a police bull etin to fill ou t I signed it and asked

’

him fo r two telegraph forms and wrot e a m essage to the

,

Hetel Montoya telling them to forwar d all mail an d

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 TH E SUN AL S O R I S E S 245

a wire to the ofli ce asking them to hold mail but for ,

m
.

Then I wen t in and had lunch .

Af ter lunch I went up to my room r ead a whil e an d

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, ,

went to Sleep When I woke it was half past four I

. .

fou nd my swimm ing su it wrapped it with a comb in a

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towel and went down stairs and walked up the street

,
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beach was smooth and firm and th e sand yellow I , .

went into a bathing cabin undressed pu t on my suit

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, , ,
’

and walked across the smooth sand to the sea The sand .

in the water and on th e beach . Out beyond where the

bor there was a whi te line of breakers and the open sea .

rollers . They came in like undulations in the water ,

the war m sand I waded out The water was cold AS

. . .

a roller came I dove swam out under water and came

, ,

to the surface with all th e chill go ne I swam out to the .

raft pulled myself up and lay on the h o t planks A

, , .

boy and girl were at the other end The girl had un « .

done the top strap of her bathing suit and was browning -

her back The boy lay face downward on the r af t a n d

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talked to her [She laughed at things he said an d turned

.
,

in the sunDI lay on the raft in the sun

until I was dry Then I tried several dives I dove deep
. .

dn ce swimming down to the bottom I swam with my

,
.

eyes open an d it was green an d dark The raft made a .

dark Shadow I came ou t o f water beside the raft

.
,

pulled up dove once mo re holding it fo r length and

, , ,

then sw am ash or e I lay on the beach u n til I was dr y

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246 TH E S U N AL S O R ISE S

l shed myself with fresh water and rubbed dry

sa ,
.

I walked around the harbor under the trees to the

casino and then up on e of th e cool streets to th e Café
,

Café an d I sat out on the ter race and enjoyed the fresh
coolness in th e hot day and had a glass of lemon juice
,
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an d shaved ice a n d then a lon g whiskey and soda I .

sat in front o f the Marinas for a long time and read and
watched the peo ple and listened to the music
, .

Later when it began to get dark I walked around the

,
,

harbor and ou t along the promenade and finally back ,

to the h o te1 for supper There was a bicycle race on

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.
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the Tour du Pays Basque and the riders were stopping

,

that night in San Sebastian In the d ining room at one

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si de there was a long table of bicycle riders eating with

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the ir train ers and managers They were all French and
.

B elgians and paid close attention to their meal but

, . .
,

they were having a good time At the head of the table .

were two good looking French girls with much Rue du

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Faubourg Montmartre chic I could n o t make out .

whom they belonged to They all spok e in slang at the

.

long table and there were many private jokes and som e
jok es at the far end that were no t repeated when the
girls asked to hear them The next morn ing at fiv e
.

o clock the race resumed with the last lap San Sebastian
’
,

Bilbao The bi cycle riders drank much win e and wer e

.
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burned and browned by the sun They did n o t take the

'

race serio u sly except among themselves They had raced .

among themselves so often that it did h o t make much

differen ce wh o won E specially in a foreign country
. .

The m oney could be arranged .

The man who had a matter of two minu tes lead in the
race had an attack of boils which were v ery painful ,
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2 43 TH E S UN AL S O RISES
at six o clock less a quarter in the morning Would I
’
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be up fo r the depart ? I would certainly try to Would .

I like him to call me ? It was very interesting I would .

leave a call at th e desk He would n o t mind calling me . .

I could n o t let him take the trouble I would leave a .

call at the desk We said good bye until the next m om

.
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mg .

In the morning when I awoke the bicycle riders and -

their following cars had been on the road for three hours .

I had coff ee and the papers in bed and then dressed and

was fresh and cool and damp in the early morning .

Nurses in uniform and ir i peasant costume walked under

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the tr ees with children The Spanish children were beau

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tiful Some bootblacks sat together under a tree talk

.

ing to a soldier The soldier had only on e arm The tide

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was in and there was a good breeze and a surf on the

beach 4 .

I undressed in one of the bath cabins cr ossed the -

narrow line of beach and went into the water I swam .

,

out trying to swim through the rollers but having to

, ,

w only the Sky and felt the drop

I sa ,

n d lift o f the swellsfl l swam back to the surf and coasted

a
in face down on a big roller then turned and swam
, , , ,

trying to keep in the trough and no t have a wave break

over me It made me tired swimming in the trough
.
, ,

and I turned an d swam ou t to the raft The water was .

buoyant and cold It felt as though yo u could never

.

sink I swam Slowly it seemed like a long swim with the

.
.

h igh tide and then pulled

,
up o n the raft and sat drip ,

ping on the boards that were becoming h o t in the su n

,
.

I looked around at the bay the old town the casino , , ,

the line of trees along the promenade and the big hotels ,
 TH E S U N AL S O R I S E S
with their white porches and gold lettered names» Off -

on the right almost closing the harbor was a green hill

, ,

with a castle The raft rocked with the motion o f the

.

\
water On the other side of th e narrow gap th at led into
.

the open sea was another high headland I thought I .

would like to swim across the bay but I was afraid o f

cramp .

I sat in the su n and watched the bathers on the beach .

They looked very small Af ter a while I stood up .

,

gr i pped with my toe s on the edg e o f the raft as it tipped

with my weight and dove cleanly and deeply to come

, ,

up through the lightening water blew the salt wate r , ,

out oh my head and swam Slowly and steadily in to

,

After I was dressed and had paid for the bath cabin I -

walked back to the hotel The bicycle racers had lef t .

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several copies o f L Au to around and I gather ed them

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up in the reading room and took them ou t and sat in an

-

easy chair in the sun to read about and catch up on

French Sporting life While I was Sitting there the con
.
~

cierge came ou t with a blue envelope in his hand .

“ ”
A telegram for you Sir ,
.

I poked my finger along under the fold that was fas t

ened down spread it open and read it It had been for
, ,
.

war ded from Paris

CO ULD YO U C OM E H O TEL M O N TAN A M AD R ID
AM R ATH E R IN TR O UBLE B R E TT .

I tipped the concierge and read the message again

,
.

A postman was coming along the sidewalk He turned

‘

in the hotel He had a big moustache and looked v ery

.

m i litary He came o u t of the hotel again The concierge

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2 0 TH E S UN ALS O R ISES
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Than k you I said ,

.

I opened it It was forwarded from Pamplona

. .

C O ULD YO U C OM E H O T EL MO N TAN A M AD RID

AM R ATH E R IN TRO UBLE B R E TT .

The concierge stood there waiting for another tip ,

p robably .

“
What time is there a train for Madrid ?
It left a t nine this morning There is a Slow train at .

”
eleven and the Sud Ex p ress at ten to night
,
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.

“
Get me a berth on the Sud Express D o you want .

the money n ow? ”

“ “
Just as y o u wish he said I will have it put
,
.

”
the bill .

D o th at .

Well that meant San Sebastian all Shot to hell I

,
.

suppose vaguely I had expected something o f the sort

, , .

I saw the concierge standing in the doorway .

“ ”
B ring me a telegram form please ,
.

W
He brought it and I took out my fountain pen and -

LA D Y A SHLEY
HOTEL MO N TAN A M AD RID
ARR IV IN G SUD E! P RE SS TOM ORRO L O VE
JA K E .

That seem ed to handle it That was it Send a girl

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o ff with o n e man Introduce her to ano ther to go ofl

.

with him N ow go and bring her back An d Sign the

. .

wire with love That was it all right I went in to lunch

. . .

I did n o t Sleep much that night on the Sud Express .

In the morning I had breakfast in the di ning car an d -

watched the rock and pine country between Avila and

Escorial I saw the Escorial ou t of the window gray
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an d long and cold in the sun a nd did not give a damn ,

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“
The chica will ask her .

“
It is v ery hot .

It is very h o t in the summer in Madr id .

And h ow cold in winter ”

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Yes it iS v er y cold in winter

,
.
.

Of that as yet I was undecided but it would giv e me ,

pleasure if my bags were b rought up from the gr ound

floor in order that they might n o t be stolen Nothing .

was ever stolen in the Hotel Montana In other fondas .

,

ment were rigidly selection ed I was happy to hear it . .

Nevertheless I would welcome th e u pbr in gal of my bags .

The maid came in and said that the female En glish

wanted to see the male English now at once , .

“ ” “
Good I said , You see It is as I said
. . .

Clearly .

I followed the maid s back down a long dark corridor

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, .

At the en d sh e knocked on a door .

“ ” “
Hello sai d Brett
,
Is it you Jake ? .
,
’
It s me .

”
Come in Come in . .

I opened the door The maid closed it after me Brett

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was in bed She had just been brushing her hair and
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held the brush in her hand The room was in that dis .

order produced only by those who have always h ad

“‘
Darling B rett said .

I went over to the bed

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”
Tell me about it .

Nothing to tell He only left yesterday I made . .

”
him go .

“ ’
Why didn t you keep him ?
’
I don t know It isn t the sort of thing o n e d oes I
’
. . .

”
don t think I hurt him any
’
.

He Shouldn t be living with any one I rea lized that

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.

N0 .

” “
Oh hell ! She said
, ,
let s not talk
’
out it
ab . Let s’

All right .

It was rather a ash amed of me

me to grow my hair out .

He said i t wou ld maka me mor e

”
a fri ght .

“
What happened ?
“
Oh he go t over that He wasn t ashamed of me ’ ‘

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,

E ng .
”

“
What was it about being in trouble ?
I didn t know whether I could make him go and I
’
,
’
didn t have a sou to go away and leav e him He tried .

togi ve me a lo t o f money you know I told him I had ,

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scads o f it He knew that was a lie I couldn t take his

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r
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’

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money you know ,
.

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No .

Oh let s n o t talk about it There were some

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things though D o give me a cigarette
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I lit the cigarette .

He learned his English as a waiter in Gib .

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Yes .

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He wanted to marry me fin ally
'

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,

Really ?
Of course I can t even marry Mike .
’
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Maybe he thought that wo uld make him Lord

Ashley .

‘
N o It wasn t that He really want ed to marry me
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. . .

So I couldn t go away from him he said He wanted to

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,
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make it s u re I could never go away from him After I d

!

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’

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Gotten more womanly o f course ,
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You ought to feel set up .

I do I m all gght again Hels wiped

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N w
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m

Good .

You know I d have lived with him if I hadn t seen

’ ’

’
Oh he d have gotten used to that
,
.

Sh e put o u t the cigare tte .

to be one

She looked away I thought sh e was looking for an .

other cigarette Then I saw She was crying I could feel

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h er crying Shaking and crying She wouldn t look up

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. . .

I put my arms around her .

“
Don t let s ever talk ab out it Please don t let s ev e r
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’ ’

”
talk about it .

“
D ear Brett .
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The barman went far enough up the bar so that he
would n o t hear ou r conversation Brett had sipped from .

the Martini as it stood on the wood Then She picked ,

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it up Her hand was steady enough to lift it after that

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first Sip .

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It s good Isn t it a ni ce bar ?

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W
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They re all nice bars ’
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You know I didn t believe it at first He was born
’
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in 1 90 5 I was in school in Paris then Think o f that

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. . .
,
“ ”
Anything you want me to think about it ?
Don t be an ass ’
ou ld you buy a lady a drink ? .

e ll have two more Martinis

’ ”
.

”
As they were before sir ? ,
”
They were very good Brett smiled at him . .

” ’
Thank you ma am ,
.

”
Well bung o Brett said,
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B u ng o -

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You know Brett said he d only been with two , ,

women before He never cared about anything but bull

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”
fighting .

H e s go t plenty o f time
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I don t know He thin ks it was me Not the Show

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. .

in general .

“
Well it was you ,
.

Yes It was me . .

I thought you weren t going to ever talk about ’

”
You ll lose it if yo u talk about it
’
.

I just talk around it Yo u know I feel rather damned .

”
good Jake
,
.

“
You Should
wg ou kno ”y makes one feel rather good decidin g no t
t ab s a bitch
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Yes .

It’ gsof
o nwhat we have instead of God .
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Quite
22 ”
Some people have God I sai d a lot ,
. .

”
He never worked very well with me .

”
Should we have another Martin i ?

them out in to fr esh glasses

'

“
Where will we have lunch ? I asked Brett The .

bar was cool Yo u could feel the heat outside through

'

Here ? asked Brett .

It s rotten here in the hotel Do you know a place

’
.

”
called Bo tin s ? I asked the barman
’
.

“
Yes Sir Would you like to have me write out the
,
.

”
address ?
“
Thank you .

We lunched up stairs at Bo tin s It is one of the best ’

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never ate much I ate a v er y b ig meal and drank three

.

bottles of r ioj a alta .

“
How do yo u feel Jake ? Brett asked M y God ! ,
.

”
what a meal you ve eaten ’
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“
I feel fine Do you want a desse rt ?
.
”

”
Lord n o ,
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Brett was smoking .

“
You like to eat don t you ? Sh e said ,
’
.

” “
Yes I said
,
I like to do a lot of things
. .

”
What do you like to do ?
” “
Oh I said I like to do a lo t of things Don t you
, ,
.
’

want a dessert ?
“
You asked me that once Brett said , .

” “ ’
Yes I said
,
So I did Let s have another bottle
. .
-

”
of r ioj a alta .
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It s very good
’
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”
Yo u haven t drunk much of it I said
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,
”
I have Yo u haven t seen .
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Let s get two bottles I Said The bottles came I

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,
. .

poured a little in my glass then a glass for Brett then , ,

filled my glass We touched glasses . .

“B ung o Brett sai d I dran k my glass and pour ed

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o u t another Brett put her hand on my arm

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“ ” “
Don t get dru nk Jake sh e said
’
Yo u don t have , ,
.
’

H ow do you know ?
”
Don t She said ’
You ll be all right
,
.
’
.

“ ” “
I m n o t getting dr unk I said
’
I m just dr inking ’

a little w
.
,

ine I like to drink wine . .

“ “
Don t ge t drunk sh e said
’
Jake don t get drunk ,
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,
’
.

” “
Want to go for a ride ? I said Want to ride .

”
through the town ?
“ ” “
Right B r ett said ,
I haven t seen M adrid I .
’
.

should see Madrid .

“ ”
I ll finish this I said
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,

Down stairs we came out through the fir st floor din

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ing room to the street A waiter went for a taxi “L

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t . .
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was h o t and bright Up the street was a little square .

taxi came up the street the waiter hanging ou t at the ,

side I tipped him and told the driver where to drive

W
.
,

an d go t in b eside Brett The dr iver started up the street . .

I settled ba ck B r ett moved close to me We sat close

. .

against each other I put my arm around her and She .

rested against me comfortably It as v ery h o t and

”

. .

bright and the houses looked S harp ly white We turned

,
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out onto the Gran Via .

B r ett said h av e had such a ,

.