Remember the old lady, and Miss Grant, and the youngsters, and all of us depend on you in this business.

Don't come back beaten.

Don't let anything stop you.

Get him drunk or get him sober--friendly or fighting--but get the truth, and get the proofs of it.

Choke it out of the old hound somehow." Hugh said that he would, and departed, weighed down by responsibility, to execute his difficult mission.