10: Not Illegal
GEES POINTED AT THE PLATE BEFORE HIM, next morning. It contained three kidneys— that is, six halves, each on a little round of toast— and was garnished by four large sausages, pushed perilously out by the kidney toasts to the edge of the plate. Nicholas Churchill looked down at the pointing finger, anxiously.
“It’s a change from the eggs and bacon breakfast, certainly,”
Gees told him, “but surely you don’t think any one man could wrap himself round more than half that and even stagger away from the table?”
“A man must eeat, sir,” Nicholas replied gravely, and apparently without complete comprehension. “T’ missus got a nice cowd ham— happen tha’d like a slice to foller them pickin’s.”
“Happen I would not,” Gees said hastily. “Don’t think of it!”
“I got to take care o’
