“You’re sure this is not he?”
“Dead sure,” cried Hyde, with a glance at Patsy. “I don’t know this chap.”
“Then he is not one of the Boston force,” declared Vic, more hopefully. “He did not lie about that.”
Badger turned again to Patsy, lowering and dark, and Patsy gained a point by saying quickly:
“Sure I didn’t lie about it. I wouldn’t lie to ladies and gents like you.”
“No, this fellow is not a Boston detective, I’ll swear to that,” Hyde now declared. “I know them all.”
“But Chick Carter——” began Badger.
“Oh, he doesn’t look like this chap,” interrupted Hyde.
“He doesn’t, eh?”