"Maybe they'd like to adopt you," said Jack jocosely. "If me and Marlowe go to Californy, you can go there."
Meanwhile Marlowe's attention had been drawn to the coat. It struck him that he had seen it before. He soon remembered. Surely it was the one that he had seen purchased in Chatham street the same afternoon. Coats in general are not easily distinguishable, but he had noticed a small round spot on the lapel of that, and the same reappeared on the coat which Julius brought home.
CHAPTER XV.
SUSPICION.
Julius had been about the streets all day, and felt tired. He threw himself down in the corner, and was soon asleep. Marlowe and Jack kept on with their game, the latter wholly unconscious of the thoughts that were passing through the mind of his companion.
Finally Marlowe, at the conclusion of a game, said: "I won't play any more to-night, Jack."
"Tired, eh?"
"Tired of playing, but I've got something to say to you."
"Out with it," said Morgan, tilting his chair back against the wall.