So Late As Six O'clock In The Evening Those Cafes And Shops Preserved A Reciprocal Integrity Which I Could Not Praise Too Highly, But After Dark There Must Be A Ghostly Interchange Of Forbidden Commodities Among Them Which No Force Of Customs Officers Could Wholly Suppress.

At any rate, I should have liked to see them try it, though I should not have liked to

Be kept in Ventimiglia overnight for any less reason; it seemed a lonesome place, though mighty picturesque, with old walls, and a magnificent old fort toward the sea, and a fine bridge spanning, though for the moment superfluously spanning, the perfectly dry bed of a river.

I wished to ask what the name of the river was, but out of all the files of people coming and going I chose an aged man who could not tell me; he excused himself with real regret on the ground that he was a stranger in those parts. Then there was nothing for me to do but go back to the station and renew my attempt on the inspector, who still remained proof against me. What added to the hardship of the situation was that it was Italy at one end of the station and France at the other, and in one extremity it was an hour earlier than it was at the other, by the time of Central Europe at the east and by the time of Paris at the west, so that I do not know but we were two hours and forty minutes at Ventimiglia instead of one hour and forty minutes.

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