He kept his coins at home in a drawer , sometimes adding to the $ 20 his father had given him when he turned six , all recorded in a little maroon passbook - his first bank account .
When italy joined the war in 1915 he switched to an italian alpine regiment , but only because two policemen marched him bodily to turin ; and he kept his french military passbook carefully on him through three years as a machine-gunner , until he was able to return to paradise again .