He was evidently going down town.
"Strange," thought Claudius, "that Barker should take the news so quietly.

I think it ought to have astonished him more." Leaving the organ-grinder, the dirty baby, and the horse-cars to their fate, Claudius entered the hotel.

He found the Duke over a late breakfast, eating cantelopes voraciously.

Cantelopes are American melons, small and of sickly appearance, but of good vitality and unearthly freshness within, a joy to the hot-stomached foreigner.

Behold also, his Grace eateth the cantelope and hath a cheerful countenance.