Perpignan Jail, April 15 Darling:

It won't be long now. We get out early tomorrow morn- ing. These next hours will undoubtedly drag, but as a whole the time here has passed remarkably quickly. There was never a jail like this, no question on that score.

Today we decorated the walls with slogans, hammers and sickles, etc. The guards came in and had fits, threatened us with extra time in the can. But the chief was wiser and more anxious to get rid of us. He settled the question by having the walls whitewashed while we were out in the yard this afternoon.

‘JOE.

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Midnight, April 16 My love,

Am sitting in a cafe in Perpignan waiting for someone to come for me. Steve has just left me—-he is leaving by other channels. The rest of us will be going within the next 48 hours and our friends assure us that there" will be no diffi- culties. One reassuring thing is that since we were caught more than goo Americans made the trip safely.

Got out of the can at 6 A.M. today. They awoke us at 5 and rushed us into the street to avoid the demonstration that they knew was being prepared.

Yesterday we were notified that we are expelled from France——given eight days to leave and not to return “with-

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