"Are you sure about that ?" "I was with Maggie the other night when Dick came to have supper with her; he didn't see me.

Besides, Dick has told me about her." "How did they ever get hold of Dick ?" "Dick's the easiest kind of fish for two such smooth men as Barney and Old Jimmie when they've got a clever, good-looking girl as bait, and when they know how to use her.

He's generous, easily impressed, thinks he is a wise man of the world and is really very gullible." "Have they got him hooked ?" "Hard and fast.

It won't be his fault if they don't land him." The painter gazed at Larry with a hard look.

Then he demanded abruptly: "Show Miss Sherwood that picture of Maggie I painted ?" "No.