SOME EXPLANATIONS Karl Breitmann! Fitzgerald pulled off a shoe, and carefully deposited it on the floor beside his chair.

Private secretary to Rear Admiral Killigrew, retired; Karl Breitmann! He drew off the second shoe, and placed it, with military preciseness, close to the first.

Absently, he rose, with the intention of putting the pair in the hall, but remembered before he got as far as the door that it was not customary in America to put one's shoes outside in the halls.

Ultimately, they would have been stolen or have remained there till the trump of doom.
Could there be two Breitmanns by the name of Karl?
Here and there, across the world, he had heard of Breitmann, but never had he seen him since that meeting in Paris.

And, simply because he had proved to be an enthusiastic student of Napoleon, like himself, he had taken the man to dinner.