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There was no brass band to meet him. At the hotel the clerk read his name without emotion. When he required the best two rooms in the hotel, and a bath at that, the clerk looked suspicious:
"Any baggage?"
"Three trunks and a grip."
"What line do you carry? Will you use the sample-room?"
"Don't carry any line. Don't want any sample-room.