"You're as full of surprises, pard," remarked McGlory, "as a cocoanut is of milk. There's no guessing what you're going to do next. You didn't tell me anything about taking the Eye of Buddha from that empty box when you left it with the clerk, and you never let out a yip about removing the ruby from the handkerchief and putting it in your cap. Regular greaser trick—carrying things in your hat."
"I thought I had to do something, Joe. When I was at work in the engine room, I had planned to take off the cap and put it in my pocket."
"What did you have in that handkerchief?"
"My pocketknife."
"Great guns! Was the knife in the handkerchief when we left Catskill?"
"No. The knife and the handkerchief were both in the same pocket. I managed to tie the knife up in the handkerchief, after a fashion, while we were facing Grattan, and he was talking."
"Well, glory to glory and all sashay! And Grattan never saw you!"
"I'm inclined to think he did, from the way the thing turned out."
"You didn't think you could fool Grattan so he wouldn't search you, did you?"
"It was a desperate chance to keep him from looking into my cap. But I might have known I couldn't fool him."