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have been, [[strikethrough]] be, [[/strikethrough]] we were both aliens and lonesome and were soon ensconced in a "four wheeler" together en route for the Great Western Hotel. My companion had been sent away to recover from a nervous breakdown caused by over work. Certainly he was in the depths of depression when we combined forces, and my heart went out to him. He was of a typical American Countenance and we were unmistakable. He has a perfectly round head which was almost entirely bald and wore a reddish brown beard while his cheeks were shaven, one of those beards which seemed to begin at his under lip and drop straight down for six or eight inches and a low open vest showing a vast expanse of pleated shirt front garnished with a diamond pin and a wide black watch