He Found Them

"Let me just go in back to check," he says, grabbing the greasy paper out of the empty basket of doughnuts. 

I can see down the length of the cafe all the way through the kitchen to the back of the restaurant. He disappears behind a line of short order cooks furiously working over a hot griddle.

A moment later he reappears with the basket piled high with doughnuts hoisted high on one shoulder, and a huge goofy smile splits my face.