Hobart comes here a good deal. So does Eaton. But it
doesn't pay financially. You see, I know because I happen to own it. I used
to eat at Alphonse's restaurant in Paris. So I sent for him. It doesn't
follow that one has to be less a slave to the artificial comforts of a
supercivilized world because one lives at Mesa."
"I see it doesn't. You are certainly a wonderful man."
"Name anything you like. I'll warrant Alphonse can make good if it is not
outside of his national cuisine," he boasted.
She did not try his capacity to the limit, but the oysters, the salad, the
chicken soup were delicious, with the ultimate perfection that comes only
out of Gaul.
They made a delightfully gay and intimate hour of it, and were still
lingering over their demi-tasse when Yesler's name was mentioned.
"Isn't it splendid that he's doing so well?" cried the girl with
enthusiasm. "The doctor says that if the bullet had gone a fraction of an
inch lower, he would have died. Most men would have died anyhow, they say.
It was his clean outdoor life and magnificent constitution that saved him.
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