While they talked at the door, a young man and a young woman entered from the street and, walking some distance into the place, suddenly stopped, peered forward earnestly, and then hastily turning, went out into the street again.
The action had been observed by Patsy, who made up his mind that they had seen somebody at the tables they desired to escape. He watched them go to the corner and engage in earnest conversation.
After a moment, they went under the cover of the corner, where Patsy could see that she took off her hat.
A moment later, they stepped out again into the light and, to Patsy’s great surprise, she was a very different looking person.
Before she had been a blonde, and now she seemed to be dark haired.
“She had a wig on,” said Patsy to himself. “Now I wonder what was the meaning of that?”
The couple stood on the corner a little longer, then the two went to the curbstone and, entering a hansom cab, were driven off.
Patsy turned to Chick and Merton, who had been conversing while he had thus been watching the couple, thinking that strange sights were to be seen in the Tenderloin late at night.
Chick, slipping his arm under Patsy’s, now led him to the sidewalk, and the two turned down Broadway.
“Well, Patsy,” said Chick. “I don’t know how much we have gained to-night, but I take it that it is a good deal.”