The face of the latter expressed anything but pleasure at meeting him, now that he felt guilty.

But this was not the uppermost feeling with Norman.

He noticed that August's clothes were spotted with engine-grease, and his first fear was of compromising his respectability.
In a hurried way August began to explain to him that he was betting with gamblers, but Smith stood close to them, looking at August in such a contemptuous way as to make Norman feel very uncomfortable, and Parkins seeing the crowd attracted by August's explanations--which he made in some detail, by way of adapting himself to Norman--of the trick by which the upper card is thrown out first, Parkins said, "I see you understand the game, young man.

If you do, why don't you bet ?" At this the crowd laughed, and Norman drew away from the striker's greasy clothes, and said that he didn't want to speak any further to a burglar, he believed.

But August followed, determined to warn him against Smith.