I was instructed to leave the animals in the quartermaster's corral at Fort Wallace until I should come back, but instead of doing this I put them both in the care of my old friend Perry, the hotel-keeper at Sheridan.

Jack said, as the crowd of brigadiers thickened before the hotel door.

Buntline immediately obtained a supply of pens, ink and paper, and then engaged all the hotel clerks as penmen.

The people you owe for hotel bills, and horse feed, and supplies, follow you from one town to another, threatening to attach the ticket wagon and levy on the animals.

In the hotel room Pete Reeve took command at once.

Even amidst all the movements and difficulties connected with hotel life, family prayers were not neglected.

"I know several hotel-managers who might have a vacancy.

" "Oh, I haf a place, monsieur, where no one will intrude," and Pelletan led the way through the hotel office to a little door back of the desk.

"What's his other nameAnson?" "We'll look and see," replied Mr. Ross, turning to the hotel register.

To begin with, the hotel proprietor sent for me.

However, a good breakfast and the sincere apologies of the hotel people did much to restore his good humor.

He reasoned idly that it must be as late as ten o'clock in the forenoon, and knew that by reaching out his arm he could open the shutter of the hotel window, admitting the sunlight and affording a view over the park and the blue lake, but he was laggard about it.

CHAPTER XXI A TALE OF WOE That evening after dinner, as Mr. Merrick sat alone in the hotel lobby, the girls having gone to watch the Major bowl tenpins, Mr. Jones approached and sat down in the chair beside him.

It would preclude the possibility of people carrying their food into their mouths with the knifean outrage so commonly to be remarked at hotel tables.

"If I made trouble for the hotel porters, the guests would wonder, and when people have nothing to do but loaf, they like to talk.

The first time was when, leaving the hotel to seek the post office and despatch his letter to London, he found himself suddenly face to face with Dupont, who was seated at a café table near the hotel entrance and narrowly scrutinising all who passed in and out; covering this occupation with affected interest in the gossip of his companion, the little rat man of the Gare de Perrache.

In order to give the visitors, ere they left Wellington, a pleasing impression of Southern customs, and particularly of the joyous, happy-go-lucky disposition of the Southern darky and his entire contentment with existing conditions, it was decided by the hotel management to treat them, on the last night of their visit, to a little diversion, in the shape of a genuine negro cakewalk.

Most of the hotel guests had finished their after-dinner coffee and liqueurs, and the hall was comparatively empty, but a few who remained raised their eyes in well-bred protest at the intrusion of a member of the lower orders into the corridor of an exclusive hotel.

She saw the stretcher carried up the hotel steps and along a passage, and then went to her room.

Meager hotel accommodations and necessity for economical habits compelled many of them to work and sleep in the same room.

There!" Around a rear hallway, they were almost immediately into a blank, staring hotel bedroom, fresh towels on the furniture-tops only enhancing its staleness.

Dressing-case and parcel were duly brought down into the grand vestibule, where the hotel servants smiled on them benignly.

Oh, you who knew Jack so well, you know that he never could havehave" Kate had seized a chair and drawn it before the two who sat on one of the long sofas that filled without adorning the vast hotel parlor, dim even at noonday in its semi-subterranean light.

R84252, 9Oct51, Cordia Greer-Petrie (A) GREETERS guide and hotel directory of California.

" Racey Dawson shambled dejectedly forth to effect the feeding of Miss Molly Dale's horse at the hotel corral.