The telephone call was supposed to have been from the French Consulate. Pretending to be Mr. Georges Bent, Nicolás went to the hotel registered a room and enjoyed drinking wine and smoking cigars before retiring.
When he came down the next morning he was shown the bill but he asked the management to honour it for 24 hours. He never paid the bill and the French Consulate had mo such guest as Mr. Georges Bent. When he was about to repeat the trick at the Park Hotel young Nicolas was arrested.
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