I put the proposition up to him, and he is rather keen on it.
He sees the value of getting news by airplane.

The saving of time and the avoidance of publicity will double its value--to say nothing of the chance that we may be able to pick up something of immense importance to the government.

Mexican situation, you know--all that sort of thing.
"So he put me in touch with parties that could furnish this." _This_ was a large photographic bird's-eye map of a country which looked very much like Arizona, or the wild places anywhere next the Mexican borderline.

"Where I got it I am not at liberty to say.

It's a practice map--done for the training in aerial photography that is essential nowadays in warfare.