“Then you don’t think it will do?”
He did not speak for a few moments. Then he gripped my wrist with all his might.
“Gil,” he said huskily, “it almost stunned me. The idea is as grand as it is simple. It is certain of success. My dear boy, what a brain you have!”
“Oh no,” I said hastily; “it was not I. It was poor Craig. He thought of it the day before yesterday, but I only got to know of it this morning.”
“I wish it had been you,” said Brace. “But never mind; it is glorious. Craig will have saved us and our reputation far more than he thinks for.”
“Then he ought to be rewarded,” I said.
“Of course!”
“Then you will put the plan in force?”
“Directly, my dear fellow,” cried Brace, excitedly. “There, I must be calm, and make my plans.”
He stood thinking for a few minutes, and then turned to me.