"The mustache is almost a complete disguise."
"I have news for you. Mr. Allen was not in Philadelphia yesterday."
"No? Where, then?"
"He spent a great part of the time in the evening in a gambling-house uptown."
"You are certain?"
"Yes, sir. I followed him into the place and watched him play."
"Humph! Did he win?"
"No, sir, he lost heavily."
Horace Sumner gave something like a groan.
"I am being deceived on all sides," he said. "If a man is a gambler he is often something worse. How about Hardwick?"