Just inside the apartment door, Violet picked up something. “What’s this?” She held it in her open hand. It was fuzzy and black. “It looks like some strange caterpillar,” Jessie said. Benny took it between two fingers. He held it under his nose. “Do I look like the man with the mustache?” Jessie laughed, then grew serious. “Let me see that.” She turned it over. “The back is covered with something — dried paste or glue.” All at once, the four Aldens came to the same conclusion: “It’s part of a disguise!” “The man in the overalls wore it!” Jessie said. “That would explain why the mustache was crooked. The glue was dry, so it no longer stuck as well,” Henry said. Violet took the object from Henry. “But it isn’t big enough to be a mustache. It’s more like” — she put it above her eye — “an eyebrow!” Jessie sank to a chair. “Do you suppose …” “Yes! That’s it!” Henry said. “The man with the mustache and the one with the bushy eyebrows — they’re one person!”
