"our hugest commercial emporialist"

(587.3-589.11)  In the relative still of the night, Luke comes upon two more witnesses who can give information on HCE, an unnamed speaker and his "auxy," Jimmy d'Arcy.  These two, who could be HCE's two sons, had "only our hazelight to see with" when the romantic action was happening a few pages ago.  They watched as if they were in the theater -- here, "Theoatre Regal" -- peeping as they ate snacks like "nutty woodbines" and "cadbully's choculars."  They knew HCE from when he joined them "in the snug at the Cambridge Arms of Teddy Ales," and the speaker notes that HCE was on good behavior there.  (HCE's association with them reminds us that he, Shaun, and Shem together could also be another form of the three soldiers who accused HCE of the sin in the park.)  

The speaker also tells us that ALP would call HCE (now also known as Fred Watkins) "Honeysuckler."  He doesn't seem to buy the prevailing story about HCE in the park.  He refers to the two young girls as "the waitresses, the daintylines, Elsies from Chelsies, the two legglegels in blooms" and the three soldiers as "those pest of parkies, twitch, thistle and charlock."  The speaker implies that, contrary to the Lord's Prayer, the three soldiers weren't "for giving up their fogging tresspasses."  He identifies the sleeping HCE, saying, "That's him wiv his wig on, achewing of his maple gum, that's our grainpopaw, Mister Beardall, an accompliced burgomaster, a great one among the very greatest, which he told us privates out of his own mouf he used to was."  In closing, the speaker notes that even after the Cad came back, ALP would dance seductively for HCE and "pair her fiefighs fore him with just one curl."

Further up the river, near the "seepoint," Luke finds the three soldiers, "Mr Black Atkins" and the "tanapanny troopertwos."  "[W]ere you there?" Luke asks.  Did they see HCE defecating ("Number two coming!  Full inside!") or urinating ("Mizpah low, youyou, number one, in deep humidity!") in the park?  We don't really find out the answer to these questions, only that there were trees in the park like the ones by the sea, trees that doubled as great figures from Irish history (as noted by McHugh), such as "the barketree" (Edmund Burke) and "the o'corneltree" (Daniel O'Connell).

Luke closes today's reading by summarizing the story once again.  There were two "pretty mistletots, ribboned to a tree," who were liberated by HCE.  After this first fall from grace, four "missywives" followed suit, and eventually there were fifty couples and one hundred children.  People became rich, and HCE "forged himself ahead like a blazing urbanorb, brewing treble to drown his three golden balls, making party capital out of landed self-interest, light on a slavey but weighty on the bourse, our hugest commercial emporialist, with his sons booing home from afar and his daughters bridiling up at his side."