Book Excerpt: ...been for the last two weeks," said the figure, -- "Hammond's Eating House "The listener noted with surprise that the voice--though it told him as plainly as if he had risen and drawn aside the red rep curtains, that outside in Gough Square the yellow fog lay like the ghost of a dead sea--betrayed no Cockney accent, found no difficulty with its aitches."You ask for Emma. She'll say a good word for me. She told me so.""But, my good--"...