There he was to have changed cars for Cadeville.

The morning train, the one from which he was thrown, made connection with the Cadeville train, but the afternoon train did not.

So he was under the necessity of remaining over night in the city of Monroe, a place of some twenty thousand inhabitants.
Being hungry, he went forth in quest of a meal.

He entered a restaurant and asked the white man whom he saw behind the counter for a meal.

The white man stepped into a small adjoining room to fill the order, and Belton eat down on a high stool at the eating counter.