“Yes, he seemed to be, but you might not have thought so if he’d happened along a little sooner when we were doing forty-five,” Bob declared.

A few minutes later Bob gave his brother a kick beneath the table just as the latter was conveying a juicy bit of steak to his mouth.

“What’s the—” Jack began and then stopped warned by the look on Bob’s face.

“Don’t turn around now, but in a minute look back of you at the man sitting close to the door,” Bob whispered.

A moment later Jack dropped his napkin and, in picking it up, cast a hasty glance toward the door.

“Ever see him before?” Bob whispered as he straightened up in his chair.

“It’s King.”

“You sure?”

“I’d know that mug if I saw it in Egypt.”

“He’s been watching us for some minutes.”