It is the emergency that
sifts men, and she had seen him rise to several with a readiness
that showed the stuff in him.
That evening they slipped out unobserved in the dusk, and a few
minutes later a young gipsy and his bride presented themselves at
the inn to be put up. The scowling young Romany was particular,
considering that he spent most nights in the open, with a sky for
a roof. So the master of the inn thought when he rejected on one
pretense or another the first two rooms that were shown him. He
wanted two rooms, and they must connect. Had the innkeeper such
apartments? The innkeeper had, but he would very much like to see
the price in advance if he was going to turn over to guests of
such light baggage the best accommodations in the house. This
being satisfactorily arranged, the young gipsies were left to
themselves in the room they had rented.
The first thing that the man did when they were alone was to roll
a cigarette, which operation he finished deftly with one hand,
while the other swept a match in a circular motion along his
trousers leg. In very fair English the Spanish gipsy said: "You
ce'tainly ought to learn to smoke, kid.
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