“Where?” asks Stoker, in amazement.
“Anywhere,” says Irving, adding, with a significant glance at me,—“from the speculators.”
“Oh, very well, if you wish it,” says Stoker.
“And, Brooks”—
“Yes, sah.”
“Anybody else in the hotel like to go?”
“Oh, yes, indeed, sah!” says Brooks—“de cook, sah.”
“And what play would the cook like to see?”
“Hamlet, sah.”
“You’ve been paid to say this!” says Irving, quoting from Louis. “Who bade you do it?”