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The great open-air restaurant in the Champs Elysees was full of / foreigners, and Paul de Virieu and Bill Chester were sitting opposite to / one another on the broad terrace dotted with little tables embowered in / flowering shrubs.
They were both smoking, -- the Englishman a cigar, the Frenchman a / cigarette. It was now half-past seven, and instead of taking the first / express to Switzerland they had decided to have dinner comfortably in / Paris and to go on by a later train.