bus-fares

Updated: July 24, 2025

I told him that I couldn't take the money, that 'bus-fares were paid at the office, and drove ahead. Then he handed me a cigar, and pretty soon he asked me if there were many people, and who had the cottages; and when I told him, he asked which was Colonel Maynard's, but he didn't say he knew him, and the next thing I knew was when we got here to the hotel he wasn't in the 'bus.

Charles King - From the Ranks