Lutkins openly takes the lawyer all over the village even then no one lets out the secret that he is Lutkins himself. He cunningly makes the lawyer agree to his plan of going out first to search for him and that he should follow. In this way, Bill had enough time to hint people of the situation. Had the two gone together to enquire it would have been a different situation. Similarly, it would be a different case had the lawyer gone out first to enquire about Lutkins.

At anyplace they went, Lutkins went out first to enquire. Be it at the poker place, the barber’s shop, his house or at his mother’s he cleverly makes the first move and succeeds in deceiving the lawyer.

Yes, he followed the same pattern everywhere. He did the same thing at the poker house, at both the barber’s shop as well as his mother’s. Had the lawyer taken the first move of enquiry no one would have got a hint of the situation.