Ali stood thinking for a few moments in silence, and then he looked frankly from one to the other.
“I will go myself,” he said.
The two young men stared at him.
“You?” they exclaimed in one breath. “Why, just now you said the risk was too great.”
“That the men would lose their lives!” cried Bob Roberts.
“If they were discovered!” exclaimed Tom Long.
“Yes,” said Ali, quietly, and he smiled back in their astonished faces.
“And yet you would run that risk?” said Bob Roberts.
“Yes: why not?”
“But for us?”