As it was, I waited in the courtyard, under a plane tree. I sniffed the smells of the cool earth and found I wasn't sleepy any more.
Then I thought of the other fellows in the office. At this hour they'd be getting up, preparing to go to work; for me this was alwayse the worst hour of the day.
I went on thinking, like this, for ten minutes or so; then the sound of a bell inside the building attracted my attention.I could see movements behind the windows; then all was calm again. The sun had risen a little higher and was beginning to warm my feet.
The keeper came across the yard and..........
