‘Appearances are often deceptive’. Comment on the statement in the light of your reading of the story ‘The Hack Driver'.
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Oliver Lutkins was indeed good at
making up convincing stories and using
his presence of mind to deceive others
in believing every lie that he told them.
As soon as Lutkins came to know that a
Lawyer has arrived in town and had been
making enquiries about him, he met the
Lawyer himself while portraying himself
as a hack Driver. He also told the Lawyer
that Lutkins owed him some money over
a game of Poker and therefore managed
to display a harmless and genuine image.
To the lawyer, the hack driver seemed
to be a simple country man ready to
help. He took him to many places like
Beincke's, Gustaff's barber shop, Grey's
barber shop, poolroom and his mother's
farmyard, in search of Lutkins. At every
place they went, people told the lawyer
that he just missed Lutkins by merely
five minutes. Thus Lutkins, very cleverly,
fooled the lawyar.