I walked around a few blocks until I came to an unlighted electric sign that said Hotel Crawford, climbed a flight of steps to the second-floor office, registered, left a call for ten o'clock, was shown into a shabby room, moved some of the Scotch from my flask to my stomach, and took old Elihu's ten-thousand-dollar check and my gun to bed with me.
Kale batzuk pasatu nituen HOTEL CRAWFORD zioen iragarki elektriko piztugabe batera iritsi baino lehen, bigarren solairuko bulegoraino eskailera-sail bat igo, izena eman, hamarretan deitzeko abisua utzi, erakutsi zidaten gela zaztar bat ikusi, scotch piska bat petakatik urdaileraino pasarazi, eta Elihu zaharraren hamar mila dolarreko txekea eta pistola aldean nituela oheratu nintzen.