"Six," replied Hal briefly.
The woman threw up her hands in a gesture of dismay.
"I can't possibly take care of so many!" she exclaimed.
"But we are all coming in," declared Hal, who realized that the sooner they were off the streets the better.
He pushed the door open and went inside. Chester and the four
Canadians followed him.
"Which way, madam?" asked Hal. "Upstairs?"
The old woman nodded, and led the way up a flight of winding steps.
"I've only one room," she said, "so you will have to make the most of it."
"That will be satisfactory," said Hal. "We don't like to inconvenience you."
"You don't, eh?" exclaimed the woman. "You're the first who wear that uniform who haven't gone out of their way to inconvenience me, and all other French women."