You know we have great need of him yet, in forcing him to disclose much that is advantageous to us.

We can starve it out of him, if threats fail.

As long as you have a good warm fire, plenty of provisions and plenty to read here you ought not to complain.

You are having the easiest part of the bargain, Halloran, while I am doing all of the hazardous work." "What if I should be suspected in the _role_ I am about to play for the Marsh millions?
Why, it would mean State's prison instead of the fortune we have planned for so desperately." "You will carry it through all right," declared Halloran, confidently.
"My nerve has never failed me so far, and I'm depending on that," said Kendale, mechanically.
Two hours later Kendale was breakfasting in a fashionable downtown restaurant, endeavoring to fortify himself with courage for the trying ordeal which he was about to face.
He had given Halloran his promise to abstain from touching even a drop of liquor, fully realizing it to be his mortal foe; but with Kendale a promise amounted to scarcely a flip of his white fingers when it ran contrary to his own desires.
He told himself that he must have a "bracer" to steady his nerves.

It was not until a second and a third had been drunk that the proper amount of courage came to him to undertake the dastardly scheme.