We are trying to steal a secret from a very sharp, very strong, and very wicked man.

I believe there is no man, except the President, of course, who is so seriously startling and formidable as that little grinning fellow in goggles.

He has not perhaps the white-hot enthusiasm unto death, the mad martyrdom for anarchy, which marks the Secretary.

But then that very fanaticism in the Secretary has a human pathos, and is almost a redeeming trait.

But the little Doctor has a brutal sanity that is more shocking than the Secretary's disease.