"What can there be!"
"Only this—suppose that you were mistaken?"
Markby was visibly offended at this.
"If you think that likely after all I have told you, take my advice and have nothing whatever to do with them. I don't want to expose you to any risk that you think you ought not to run."
Lenoir appeared to waver momentarily.
Markby eyed him anxiously for awhile, until Lenoir, with an air of resolution, exclaimed—
"Hang the risk. I'll go for it neck or nothing."
"And you will take them there to-night."
"I will."
"Good! You'll have no cause to repent your decision. They'll do you a turn that you little contemplate."