Here's a letter from Shifty Sam." "Who the devil is he?
A friend of yours ?" "No," said John, "he's a 'con man.' He works about as mean a graft as any you ever heard of.

He reads the 'ads' in the papers--see ?--of servant girls who're looking for work.

He makes a specialty of cooks.

Then he goes to where they live and talks of some nice family that wants a servant right away.

He claims to be the butler, and he's dressed to look the part.