"One must remember things when one is in my business."
"I suppose so."
"Of course, when I started out, and when I ordered all these arrangements made, there was no certainty in my mind that my expectations would be fulfilled, but I made sure to be prepared for the moment if it came,-or if I could bring it about."
"I see."
"And now you understand why I have purposely kept myself in plain sight, all along; why I chose to sit at the window over there at the hotel, and talk so that the spy across the street could read what I was saying, from the motion of my lips."
"Yes. But that spy was the one captured by Patsy. He has had no chance to report what he saw you say, at that time."
"Don't think he was the only one who was watching me. I haven't a doubt that the chief himself was watching me at the time. I figured that he was."
"You seem to have figured the thing out pretty carefully, Carter."
"I have. I had to do so, if I wished to be successful. I have promised the President that I would deliver Mustushimi to him in person, and I want to do it to-morrow morning."
"Suppose that the chief himself does not enter the house? Suppose he leaves that part of the work for his followers to do."