MEN WITHOUT WOMEN By ERNEST HEMINGWAY BOOKS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY MEN WITHOUT WOMEN THE SUN ALSO RISES THE TORRENTS OF SPRING IN OUR TIME NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1927 COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS _Copyright, 1926, by The Little Review Publishing Company_ _Copyright, 1926, by Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead_ _Copyright, 1927, by Republic Publishing Company_ _Copyright, 1927, by Doubleday, Page & Company_ _Copyright, 1927, by Atlantic Monthly Company_ _Copyright, 1927, by The Macaulay Company_ Printed in the United States of America TO EVAN SHIPMAN Some of these stories were first published in the following periodicals: _The American_ _Caravan_, _The Atlantic Monthly_, _The Little_ _Review_, _The New Republic_, _La Nouvelle_ _Revue Française_, _This Quarter_, _Der Querschnitt_, _Scribner’s Magazine_, _Transition_. CONTENTS THE UNDEFEATED IN ANOTHER COUNTRY HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS THE KILLERS CHE TI DICE LA PATRIA? FIFTY GRAND A SIMPLE ENQUIRY TEN INDIANS A CANARY FOR ONE AN ALPINE IDYLL A PURSUIT RACE TO-DAY IS FRIDAY BANAL STORY NOW I LAY ME MEN WITHOUT WOMEN THE UNDEFEATED MANUEL GARCIA climbed the stairs to Don Miguel Retana’s office. He set down his suitcase and knocked on the door. There was no answer. Manuel, standing in the hallway, felt there was some one in the room. He felt it through the door. “Retana,” he said, listening. There was no answer. He’s there, all right, Manuel thought. “Retana,” he said and banged the door. “Who’s there?” said some one in the office. “Me, Manolo,” Manuel said. “What do you want?” asked the voice. “I want to work,” Manuel said. Something in the door clicked several times and it swung open. Manuel went in, carrying his suitcase. A little man sat behind a desk at the far side of the room. Over his head was a bull’s head, stuffed by a Madrid taxidermist; on the walls were framed photographs and bull-fight posters. The little man sat looking at Manuel. “I thought they’d killed you,” he said.