I'd never rest easy again.

And yet it's our own necks that may be at stake.

In God's name what shall I do ?" He rocked to and fro in his agony of indecision.
But his words had moved McMurdo deeply.

It was easy to see that he shared the other's opinion as to the danger, and the need for meeting it.

He gripped Morris's shoulder and shook him in his earnestness.
"See here, man," he cried, and he almost screeched the words in his excitement, "you won't gain anything by sitting keening like an old wife at a wake.