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242 / A M E S[ 1906-1907 ]received his month's pay from the bank, he drank heavily in a cafe andindiscreetly allowed two hangers-on with whom he was talking to see thecontents of his wallet. They followed him out, knocked him down, andmade off with his 200 crowns.* 83In the resulting hubbub he would havebeen arrested, as when he firstarrived in Trieste in 1904, if some peoplein the crowd had not recognized him and taken him home, a good deed(like Hunter's earlier) which he recalled at the end of the Circe episode inUlysses. A few crowns had fortunately been left in the house. Joyce wiredhis brother to herald his return. Then he packed Nora and Giorgio intoa train and fledfrom Rome.* In Exiles (561 [393]), the boy Archie asks his father, 'Are there robbers here like inRome?'