Let Nature have her way." He was suspicious of Humphreys, not because he wore a mustache, but because he shaved the rest of his face and greased his hair.

He had, besides, a little intuitive perception of the fact that a smile which breaks against the rock-bound coast of cold cheek-bones and immovable eyes is a mask.

And so he determined to test the literary man.

I have heard that Masonic lodges have been deceived by impostors.

I have never heard that a literary man was made to believe in the genuineness of the attainments of a charlatan.
And yet Humphreys held his own well.