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Al at once Eveline remembered that she didn't know the way back to the hotel, stil she couldn't go into th Here they were lined up in a semicircle along the wal , the young grandduchesses trembling at the unusual nature of the orders given and at the gloomy hour. Merritt was drinking his last cup of coffee in little sips. The guys from Chicago said they'd been working in a munitions factory themselves but they were through, goddam it,

right and shiny and the dry hil s rising rocky behind them, and snowmountains standing out clear up above. They sat in the diner al afternoon talk-ing and drinking and got to Bordeaux boiled as owls. Before Armistice Day, 1919, the town was ful ofrumors that on that day the hal would be raided for keeps. Ev-eline wanted to be Elaine the Fair, but Adelaide said she couldn't because her hair was mousy and she had a face like a pie, so she had to be the Maiden Evelina.