"We can shorten it," grinned Rudolph. "I have pharmacists who can see that his drugs are more than normal strength."
"That would be excellent, sir. When he is too enfeebled to discharge his duties, there may be an attempt to rake up the affair of the double to discredit you. I could then testify that I was your man all along and that May coerced me."
They put their heads together, the two saviors of civilization as they knew it, and conspired ingeniously long into the endless night.