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told we could board a train with the car. It was Sunday - we had no money, barely any gas, [[strikethrough]] no time to spare to get out of France before our 3 day [[/strikethrough]] & it was growing dark. We simply had to get to Italy within the 3 days allowing us to leave France, & get to the Conti before she sails in 3 days.

We arrived at the station, found there was a train, but they couldn't exchange Amer. Exp. checks. After trying to tell our story to the ticket man in French - he realized that he was telling us we had to stay here in Modane as long as the war lasted - & agreed to exchange $10 ex. ch. The next thing we found that the train wasn't leaving that night  - & as the whole army is here, we almost had no beds or money to spend on them. We [[strikethrough]] dined [[/strikethrough]] had to save our money for the train. We dined on our leftover