Chapter 3

I Uncle Patas' Domestic Drama--The Bakery--Karl the Baker--The Society of the Three

II One of the Many Disagreeable Ways of Dying in Madrid--The Orphan--_El Cojo_ and his Cave--Night in the Observatory

III Meeting with Roberto--Roberto Narrates the Origin of a Fantastic Fortune

IV Dolores the Scandalous--_Pastiri's_ Tricks--Tender Savagery--A Modest Out-of-the-way Robbery

V Gutter Vestals--The Troglodites

VI Señor Custodio and his Establishment--The Free Life

VII Señor Custodio's Ideas--_La Justa, el Carnicerín_ and _El Conejo_

VIII The Square--A Wedding in La Bombilla--The Asphalt Caldrons