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Never had Mr Cone put in such a summer! The lines in his forehead looked as if they had been made with a harrow and there were times when his eyes had the expression of a hunted aniuests was now asout the uest had a coestion Now heMr Cone down publicly In truth, baiting the landlord seeuests of The Colonial Threats to leave were of coed to be once more in a position to tell them calh taxes, excessive wages, extensive improvements still to be paid for, prudence kept him silent

The only way in which he could explain the uests were ihout the world in the years following the war The theory did not make his position easier, however, nor alter the fact that he all but fell to treet a drink of ice water at the cooler

As he lay aondering what next they would find to co, but when the tie always failed hio on forever--soht word and he would surprise them He had come to listen with comparative equanied, the service poor, and the food the worst served on the beach-front, but there was the very strong possibility that someone would inadvertently touch a sensitive nerve and he would "fly off the handle" When that happened, Mr Cone dreaded the outcome

Such were conditions at The Colonial when the folders arrived announcing the opening of the Lolabawauests for the reed those who had a taste for the Great Outdoors to consider what they had to offer The folders created a sensation They caht of excessive heat and huuests found them in their mail when, fishy-eyed and irritable, they went in to breakfast

A new elevator boy who had jarred them by the violence of his stops had not improved their tempers, therefore few of the wretchedness of the service