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`` The whole outfit is better than I was afraid it might be , '' he announced . `` Some of these boom towns have wretched quarters for newcomers . In fact , I 've read in the newspapers that in many places the newcomers had to roll themselves in blankets and sleep out in the fields . '' `` I was reading about one place where they set up cots on the floor of a general store at night and sold the right to sleep on a cot until seven o'clock in the morning for one dollar , '' said Randy . There was no running water , but each room was supplied with a bowl and pitcher , and after the extra cots were placed in the larger apartment an extra bucket of water was also brought up by a maid . Although they did not know it , the Rovers had no sooner disappeared upstairs than two of the men sitting on the veranda of the hotel came into the office and looked over the register . `` Five Rovers , and all from New York City , '' muttered one of the men , and gazed knowingly at his companion .