5/26 We'd have lost them. My plans would possibly have been checkmated. In the third place, what you propose would have been tame sport, indeed, as a beginning! Three excellent reasons, my dear Major, why this is positively the only way." "Perhaps. But there's always the chance of failure, now. The guards--" "After your own experience, when that capsule burst in the laboratory, you talk to me about guards ?" "Suppose one escapes ?" The Master only smiled grimly, and sighted his course up the dark river. |