"Why, I thought they had the handkerchiefs over their faces because--" "Shut up and listen!" warned Jim Duff.
"...because," finished Tom, "they wanted me to feel that everything was being done regularly and in good dime-novel form.

My, but they do look like some of the fellows that Hen Dutcher used to tell us about.

Hen used to waste more time on dime novels than--" "Shut up!" again commanded Duff.

"These gentlemen feel that there is no need of their being recognized." "Then why didn't Fred Ransom, of the Colthwaite Company, cover up the scar on his chin ?" retorted Reade.

"Why didn't Ashby, of the Mansion House, invent a new style of walking for the occasion ?" Both men named drew hastily back into the shadow.