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Stranger: I'll introduce myself. My name Bates is John Bates. I'm a junior secretary at the Em-
[beits] bassy here. I'll come along with you as far as the Crillon, for it does all sound rather strange.
At the Crillon they find the door of No. 342 locked and go down to the clerk.
Miss Day: Can I have my key, please?
Clerk: Whom do you wish to see, mademoiselle?
Miss Day: I registered here last night with my mother, and we were given No. 342. Please give me my key.
Clerk: But surely you are wrong, mademoiselle. You could not have come here yesterday evening; it must have been some other

hotel. What did you say was the number of the room, mademoiselle?
Miss Day: No. 342.
Clerk: But I do not understand, mademoiselle, for No. 342 has been taken by Monsieur Ley. He often stays at the hotel. He is a very good friend of ours.
Miss Day: But I did register here yesterday evening with my mother. I demand to see the registration papers which were filled in by people yesterday. _ə
Clerk: As you wish, mademoiselle, but you will certainly find that you have not registered here.
She goes through the previous day's registration papers several times, but fails to find those filled in by her mother and herself.
Clerk: Is mademoiselle satisfied now?
Miss Day: No, I am far from satisfied. As a matter of fact, you were the one that gave us the papers to fill in. I remember you quite distinctly on account of that ring you have on your finger with the blood-red stone in it.
Monsieur Ley [məsja lei]
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[pri:jvəs] day = day before
As a matter of fact = in reality

Clerk: But I never saw mademoiselle be- fore in my life. Perhaps mademoiselle is not well; it is very hot to-day.
Miss Day: My mother wasn't well this
Call = come morning, so I made the manager arrange for the doctor to call and see her. Both the doctor and the manager will remember me. Will you please call the manager? Clerk (speaking in a tone of resignation): If you think it will help, mademoiselle, I will call the manager.
The clerk returns with the manager, who does not seem to recognize her either.
Bates (to Miss Day): Don't you think the Be in charge of doctor who is in charge of your mother would = look after recognize you? (To the manager.) Perhaps I had better introduce myself - John Bates, a sec-
retary of the British Embassy here. I think that I must insist that you call the doctor.
After a twenty minutes' wait the doctor appears,
Doctor: I understand that mademoiselle and monsieur wish to see me. In what way can I be of assistance to you?
Miss Day: Oh, doctor, I have now got the medicine for mother. Have you seen her again? Can you tell me how long it will be before we're able to continue our journey to England? I don't understand these people at the hotel. They say they have never seen me before. Tell them, doctor, that they are wrong. Tell them that you saw my mother in room 342 this morning, and then sent me to your house for some medicine for her.
Doctor: I think you must be suffering from the heat. Perhaps I could arrange to get something for you. You are looking extremely white and nervous.
Miss Day: But, doctor, what about my mother? Don't worry about me! How's my mother? Will it be necessary to send her to hospital?
Doctor: I am sorry, mademoiselle, but I have never seen your mother. Until a few minutes ago, I had never seen you either. But I should be pleased to help you.
Miss Day (turning to John Bates): Take me away from here, otherwise I'll go quite mad, just like these people here.
John Bates, who is quite sure that the girl is telling the truth although he does not know why he should be so sure after hearing the clerk, the manager, and the doctor at the hotel - takes her to a small restaurant. Here, with much difficulty, he succeeds in getting her to eat a little, while at the same time she tells him the whole of the story from the time of the death of her father in India, until the happenings of the same morning.
Bates: Now, Miss Day, I'll tell you at once that I believe every word of your story, and I'm prepared to do everything I can to help you. To be true, I'm only a junior secretary at the Embassy, but I'm sure that they'll help, too. Before I tell them the story, I think it would be a very good idea to be able to prove as much of it as possible. Now, what I suggest is this. You must stay somewhere while we're looking into things. I've got a room at a hotel; it is quite a small one, but it's clean and cheap. I'm sure I could get them to find a room for you there. As soon as you're fixed there, I suggest we go to see the shipping company by whose boat you travelled to

Marseilles. We can get them to confirm that you and your mother were passengers as far as Marseilles. We can also get hold of the man from the shipping company who helped you at the station. Through him it may be possible to get into touch with the cab driver who drove you to the Crillon. When we have this information, I can go to the people at the Embassy and get them to do something.