I will pretend to drink mine, and will manage to pour it away on the floor.
Presently do you lean forward on to the table and appear to fall asleep.
As I am in the corner, I will lean back and seem to go off also.

Unless I am greatly mistaken this is a regular thieves' den.

Keep one hand on the butt of a pistol.

We will both keep awake for a time, and if nothing comes of it we will then watch by turns.

It is clear that they suspect that we are not what we seem." The men at the other table were talking together in low voices, and, listening intently, Hector could hear a murmur of voices in the room behind him.
"There were more than two voices there," he whispered presently to Paolo.