“Did you hear either of the others call him by name?”
“No.”
“Did he act as though he were the boss?”
“I wouldn’t say so. In fact he didn’t have much to say. Seemed like one of those quiet kind. But you never can tell.”
“‘Still waters run deep,’ hey?”
“Something like that. At least that’s the way it struck me.”
“Suppose he’s the brains of the gang?”
“Hard to tell, but I hardly think so. Pierre and Tiny didn’t seem to pay very much attention to him.”
“That may have been a plant.”
“Mebby.”