“I asked you when you got out?”

“Six weeks ago. Wot cher goin’ ter have? Name yer pisen?”

“I’ll take some of the rosy.”

“I’ve been on de tramp. I just dropped in here tinkin’ I’d run up agin’ youse.”

“Oh!”

The bartender brought the liquor, and the two men were silent.

It will be well to explain that Mugsey Donovan was an old pal of Brockey’s, whom Carter had arrested and sent to prison for highway robbery.

The rascal was still in Sing Sing.

It will be seen that the detective’s disguise must have been perfect to have deceived Brockey as it did.

The scoundrel actually believed that he was talking to his old pal.