"I told 'em I lived with a friend some of the time, when he wasn't absent in the country," said Julius, grinning, as he referred to Jack's frequent terms of enforced seclusion.
"Was you ever at the Island, Julius?"
"No."
"That's odd! You don't do credit to Jack's teaching."
"Likely I'll go some time," said Julius, who, knowing that he was suspected, thought it would not do to seem too virtuous.
"It ain't so bad when you're used to it. Let me see that coat."
Julius tossed it over to Marlowe. It was the only part of his clothing which he had taken off when he went to bed.
"It's a good coat."
"Yes, a bully one."
"The boy—young Hoffman—used to wear it, didn't he?"