CHAPTER XIXIN WHICH ASHTON-KIRK PAYS HIS SECOND VISIT TO SCHWARTZBERG
SCANLON was not at all an impatient man, but the length of time consumed by Ashton-Kirk next morning over his toilet and his breakfast rather put him on edge.
“I like to see a man fussy about his appearance,” said he to himself. “It’s a sign that he’s in health. Breakfast is also a good sign. The fellow that can cheerfully face his morning meal is usually all right inside. But both things can be carried to extremes. When there’s pressing matters to be carried through what matter how you look; when a puzzle of weeks’ standing is about to turn over on its edge and give a last kick, a chop, an egg and a roll shouldn’t be the things to interfere with its doing.”
But though the big man was in a highly excited state, Ashton
