“Dick Kidd?”
“That’s the party I have reference to,” replied Burt.
“What about Dick?”
“I want to know where he is.”
Cook laughed.
“I shouldn’t wonder he was inside a French prison just now,” he replied.
“Why do you say that?”
“I left Dick in Paris; he wanted me to remain with him, saying that the graft for two sharp chaps was immense over there.”
“I happen to know that Dick Kidd came to this country with you.”
As we know, Burt had no knowledge of the arrival of either. He simply made the statement as a feeler.