"You don't understand, and I can't tell you.
You can never harm John Mark." "Why not ?" asked Bill Gregg.

"Has he got a thousand men around him all the time?
Even if he has they's ways of getting at him." "Not a thousand men," said the girl, "but, you see, he doesn't need help.

He's never failed.

That's what they say of him: 'John Mark, the man who has never lost!'" "Listen to me," said Ronicky angrily.

"Seems to me that everybody stands around and gapes at this gent with the sneer a terrible lot, without a pile of good reasons behind 'em.