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this sounds almost too quickwitted to be true. However it happened, the error gave the two French ���iers time to hustle Lindbergh off to the haven they had prepared for him; the stories that say he was carried off on the shoulders of the crowd, including the account in his own book, seem not to have been true. Lindbergh was delivered to the cot in Major Weiss��� of���ce, too excited to sleep. He asked anxiously if he would have any dif���culties because he had entered France without a visa, an idea that for a few moments rendered the French ���iers speechless with laughter. Delage asked where he wanted to go and Lindbergh answered with a single word, ���Ambassadeurs,��� the name of the hotel where the New York Times had reserved a room for him, underestimating the impact of the event to the extent of believing it could have an exclusive story by signing Lindbergh up to write his account of the ���ight. Delage understood him to mean the American Embassy and drove him there, getting through the traf���c I don���t know how. At the embassy an attempt was made to put him to bed for a second time, and the journalists who came pouring into the embassy were told that he was sleeping, exhausted, and could see no one until the next day. But Lindbergh was still too excited to sleep. About two in the morning he sent down word that he would see the press, and it was then that he gave his ���rst brief interview, sitting on the edge of his bed, dressed in a pair of pajamas lent him by Herrick. It was no secret that the ambassador was portly, but the press was for once HYLAND 11