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I hope you both will call upon me . '' Both boys readily accepted the invitation in advance , and Dick promised to write to Frank at his boarding-school in Connecticut . At about half past ten , the two boys left the St. Nicholas , and went back to their boarding-house . After a comfortable night 's sleep , they got up punctually to the seven o'clock breakfast . It consisted of beefsteak , hot biscuit , potatoes , and very good coffee . Dick and Fosdick did justice to the separate viands , and congratulated themselves upon the superiority of their present fare to that which they had been accustomed to obtain at the restaurants . Breakfast over , Fosdick set out for the hat and cap store in which he was employed , and Dick for Rockwell & Cooper 's on Pearl Street .