"An get fourteen days?"

"No; get away."

"Aw, I come ere for a rest," he said compla
cently. " An another night s kip won t urt me
none."

They were all of this opinion, so I was forced to
sling it alone.

"You cawn t ever come back ere again for a
doss," they warned me.

"No bloody fear," said I, with an enthusiasm they
could not comprehend; and, dodging out the gate,
I sped down the street.

Straight to my room I hurried, changed my
clothes, and less than an hour from my escape, in a
Turkish bath, I was sweating out whatever germs
and other things had penetrated my epidermis, and
wishing that I could stand a temperature of three
hundred and twenty rather than two hundred and
twenty.

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