“Nor Sandy Pete?”

“No.”

“Nor Jim Noonan?”

“I did not.”

“How about Demas Lorton? Did you see him?”

“No. But it so chanced that I heard of him only last night.”

“What about him?”

“Nothing special. I only heard a couple of chaps speaking of him and wondering what had become of him. It is said that he has not been seen around the city for a month or more.”

“Did the men who said this know who you were?”

“No. Why?”