"You will understand as we proceed with the casejust now it is 'not necessary that you should do so."
"Nevertheless, I wish you would do me the favor to explain."
"When I was sent for to come here-and I was sent for, as you know-I realized that the only way in which I could hope to succeed quickly would be to force the other fellow's hand, so I adopted this means of doing it."
"What means?"
"I came here in the open. I purposely arranged so that Mustushimi would know at once of my arrival. I believed that if I did that, he would open the ball at once and not wait for me to do it. I knew that he would instantly place half a dozen or more spies on, my trail, and that my best course would be in capturing one of them and forcing the man to tell me all he knew. And so I laid my plans accordingly."
"But if they follow and know where you take the man?"
"If they do that, it will doubtless end in my capturing more than one. My dear senator, I have prearranged a nice little trap for Baron Mustushimi to walk into. I shouldn't wonder if I had the good luck to catch the man himself, as well as some of his underlings."
"Gee! I hope so."
"Senator, there are times when you make use of surprisingly undignified language for a senator of the United States."
"Oh, bother that! I am a plain Westerner, Carter, and I never wear the toga of a senator outside the chamber."