"Oh, I might as well be here as anywhere," said Sharpley. "Just at present there is nothing in particular to take up my attention. Did you order breakfast?"
"Yes, Colonel Sharpley."
"Go and ask if it isn't ready, will you?"
Frank entered the inn, and soon returned with the information that breakfast was ready. They entered a small dining-room, where they found the simple meal awaiting them.
The regular Swiss breakfast consists of coffee, bread and butter, and honey, and costs, let me add, for the gratification of my reader's curiosity, thirty cents in gold. Dinner comprises soup, three courses of meat, and a pudding or fruit, and costs from sixty cents to a dollar, according to the pretensions of the hotel. In fact, so far as hotel expenses go, two dollars a day in gold will be quite sufficient in the majority of cases. If meat is required for breakfast, that is additional.
"How good the coffee is," said Frank. "I never tasted it as good in America."
"They know how to make it here, but why didn't you order breakfast?"
"I thought they would supply meat without an order."
"I always want meat; I have got beyond my bread-and-butter days," said Sharpley, with a dash of sarcasm.