"Yes."
"Why did Fellows cut them off the list? What does he know about it? We're here on the ground. He's back in New York."
"The instructions came from The Shadow, Bruce. Fellows merely passed them on to us."
"Maybe The Shadow is wrong, Harry."
"You don't know The Shadow, Bruce."
The man by the window shrugged his shoulders.
"He knows his stuff all right, Harry. I can see that. But there's just a certain amount that a human mind can do. I understand his plan all right. He thinks that one of the towns along this branch line is the spot we're after. So he studies them all from some standpoint that we don't know, and cuts some of them off the list. I admit that that's good theory. But does it work in practice?"
"That's what we're trying to find out."
"I know. So far it's been a blank. Keep on with it; I'm game. But I'm beginning to question the entire basis of the thing. There's two great chances of error. First — Elbridge Meyers. Are we sure he's one of the men? Second — assuming that he is one of them, did he come this way?"
"It's all based on deduction, Bruce. The Shadow is a master of that art."