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Excerpt from Lodging for a Night: A Directory of Hotels Possessing Modern Comforts, Inviting Cottages and Modern Auto Courts, Also Guest Houses Whose Accommodations Permit the Reception of Discriminating Guests
It was agreed that the servant would leave a sign on the doorpost of the inn, by which the master would know whether to turn aside in order to sample its wares and to take his' ease. If the quality of these were above ordinary, the symbol to be written on the doorpost was the word Est.
Should the servant discover the wines and foods to be of unusual excellence, he was to repeat the symbol twice, Est. Est. One day, having come far by a road so untraveled that he might easily have missed his way, the man came upon a quaint and charming inn, deep by the roadside, and upon approaching closer, observed that his servant had written upon the doorpost Est. Est. Est. So enamoured of the place did the master become that he lingered on and on. In fact, his journey was ended, for here he sojourned the rest of his days, deep in the conviction that it represented the ne plus ultra of his years of search.
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