23/73 "They'd have rooked you at the other hole--underfed you, overcharged you, and filled you full of lies. I tell the truth to folk who come to my hotel." And he did, some of it. He was inexhaustible, unconquerable, tireless, an optimist always. He had a store that was part of the hotel, in which he claimed to sell "everything the mind of man could wish for in East Africa"; and the boast was true. He even sold American dime novels. |