Jon Hagadorn

"'Kitchens?

Oh, of course.

Complete ones.'

"'And cooks?'

"'Excellent.'

"'Well, a fowl, fish, game.

It signifies little, so that I eat.'

as Your Excellency pleases.

You mentioned a fowl, I think.

Yes, a fowl.

Papino, turning around, shouted, A fowl for His Excellency!

His voice yet echoed in the archway when a handsome, graceful, and half-naked young man appeared, bearing a fowl and a silver dish on his head, without the assistance of his hands.

I could almost believe myself at the Café de Paris, murmured Dangler's.

"'Here, Your Excellency,' said Pepino, taking the fowl from the young bandit and placing it on the worm-eaten table, which with the stool and the goatskin bed formed the entire furniture of the cell.

Danglers asked for a knife and fork.

"'Here, Excellency,' said Pepino, offering him a little blunt knife and a boxwood fork.

Danglers took the knife in one hand and the fork in the other and was about to cut up the fowl.

and was about to cut up the fowl.

"'Pardon me, Excellency,' said Pepino, placing his hand out on the banker's shoulder.

"'People pay here before they eat.