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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 584094" data-attributes="member: 221">Chapter 4: The Hotel RenardHugh Rogers called them to let them know he had a room reserved for them.“The Hotel Renard,” he said, “It’s some fancy place near the waterfront.  It will be Great!  I’ve got you one room, I assume you two don’t mind sharing a room?”“Did you get two beds?” asked Andrew skeptically.  “Yeah, yeah, of course!  Two beds, one room!  The paper’s picking up all the expenses so you guys can focus on work!  You’re big time now boys!  No more of college interning for you!”“That’s great.”“Yeah, you two check in, get your room and then as soon as its dark you get on that ship for me and get pictures!”The Hotel Renard, was, as Hugh Roger’s had promised, close to the waterfront.  But it did not look either fancy or great.  From outside it was apparent that the place was a dump.  The walls were chipped and cracked and one of the windows on the second floor of the three floored hotel was obviously cracked and duct-taped over.  The twins entered the lobby with some hesitation. The man at the front desk was hispanic, over-weight and had a slack-jawed expression.  He seemed to move with all the speed of a tranquilized turtle.  His name tag read Ramone.  “Hello,” said Andrew approaching the front desk.“Ho-la,” said Ramone, “Can… I…”There was a bit of a pause and then Ramone finished his sentence, “help… you?”“We have reservations,” said Andrew.“Si,” said Ramone.“Do you have our room?”“What is… the…,” another pause, a blank stare, and then, “the.. name?”“Sharpless.”“Sharpless…, si…”Ramone moved slowly over to look at the book of reservations and looked.  There was a single name written on the page   He looked at it closely and slowly to make sure it said, “Sharpless.”Then, having satisfied himself that indeed, he had, just a half an hour before laboriously recorded the name Sharpless as having a Reservation for a room, he turned and moved to the back wall on which hung several keys in a tribute to good old fashioned traditions.  He reached up and slowly unhooked one.Ramone looked at the key and then back up at Andrew and James who were waiting patiently and expectantly.“You…have… room number thirty…,” he looked back down at the key,  and then back up, “…seven.  One of… our… best.”He slowly moved over and hand the key to Andrew, “Third floor… amigos.”Andrew took the key and the twins climbed the stairs, due to the fact that the elevator was not working, to the third floor where they easily found the room.  The peeling paint in the hall did not encourage them and the room lived down to their lowest explanation.  The walls were chipped, the air stank of fish, the sink in the bathroom was dirty and the television had been stolen.  The only bright spot in the whole room appeared to be the two beds which looked fairly clean and comfortable.“The sink is dirty!” said Andrew.  James made a face, “I thought this was one of their best?”“Maybe they made a mistake,” shrugged Andrew.They went back down and complained to Ramone.“The Sink is Dirty!” complained Andrew.“The room smells like fish!” complained JamesRamone slowly apoligized and ended up giving them the key to room twenty six.  The process took a few minutes, requiring Ramone to walk back to the keys twice.  Finally though the two tromped back up the stairs to the second floor.  The hall outside the rooms was in a condition identical to that of the third floor.They entered their new room and looked around.  The air in twenty-six smelled just as strongly of fish and the room was, if anything, in worse shape than the first they had received.“The hot water handle is missing from the sink,” noted Andrew.“The bed is comfortable,” said James, sitting on it and surveying the hole in the wall, the busted lamp and the stains on the rug.  In the end they went back and took room thirty-seven again.</blockquote>

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