Neither had the slightest sense of hypocrisy in himself or in his comrade.

On the contrary! Penrod's eyes went from Sam's medal back to his own; thence they wandered, with perhaps a little disappointment, to the lifeless street and to the empty yards and spectatorless windows of the neighbourhood.
Then he looked southward toward the busy heart of the town, where multitudes were.
"Let's go down and see what time it is by the court-house-clock," said Penrod..