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D eaten nothing, here felt his grievance reach its climax, and in a sudden
outbreak of recklessness he roared out, "Hi, waiter--you, Tournelli. He may," he added, turning darkly to us, "buy up enough stock to control the board and dismiss ME; but, by thunder, if it costs me my place,
I'm going to have some more chicken!" It was probably this sensitiveness
that kept us from questioning him, even indirectly, and perhaps led us into the wildest surmises. He
was acting secretly for a brotherhood or society
of waiters; he was
a silent partner of his German employer; he was a disguised Italian stockbroker, gaining "points" from the unguarded conversation of "operating"
customers; he was a political refugee with capital; he was a fugitive Sicilian bandit, investing his
ill-gotten gains in California; he was a dissipated
young nobleman, following some amorous intrigue across the ocean, and acting as his own Figaro or Leporello.
I think a majority of us favored the latter hypothesis, possibly because
we were young, and his appearance gave it color. His thin black mustaches and dark eyes, we felt, were Tuscan and aristocratic; at least, they were like the baritone who played those parts, and HE ought to
know. Yet nothing could be more exemplary and fastidious than his conduct towards the few lady frequenters of the "Poodle Dog" restaurant, who, I regret to say, were not puritanically reserved or conventual in manner. But an unexpec
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