"It is not permit."
"Will you notify Mr. Weeks?"
Receiving no reply to this request, Kirk broke out: "Well, then, what
ARE you going to do? Let us stay here all night?"
"W'at is your bizness?"
"I haven't any."
"You don' work on the Canal?"
"No. I'm a tourist. My father is a big railroad man in the States. I'm telling you this so you'll know how to act."
"W'ere do you leeve—w'at 'otel?"
"I've been stopping with Mr. Weeks."
Senor Alfarez's attitude became somewhat less overbearing.