1. My meditations were interrupted by a tremendous noise and conflict in another part of the café. P. I saw above the heads of the seated patrons. Q. They fought between the tables like Titans, and glasses crashed, and men caught their hats up and were knocked down R. My cosmopolite was sustaining the pride and reputation of the Earth when the waiters closed in on both combatants with their famous flying wedge formation and bore them outside, still resisting. S. Rushmore Coglan and a stranger to me were engaged in terrific battle. 6. I called McCarthy, one of the French garçons, and asked him the cause of the conflict.