As he held these four men at this moment, he could have held a crowd.

The man of the world--the fastidious dandy--had shed his mask; there stood the leader, calm, serene in the very face of the most deadly danger that had ever encompassed any man, looking that danger fully in the face, not striving to belittle it or to exaggerate it, but weighing it in the balance with what there was to accomplish: the rescue of a martyred, innocent child from the hands of fiends who were destroying his very soul even more completely than his body.
"Everything, I think, is prepared," resumed Sir Percy after a slight pause.

"The Simons have been summarily dismissed; I learned that to-day.
They remove from the Temple on Sunday next, the nineteenth.

Obviously that is the one day most likely to help us in our operations.

As far as I am concerned, I cannot make any hard-and-fast plans.