"It might be best to take them slowly, Bert."
"Of course, chief. That's the way I always work. Anita Marie has hooked that dame from Philly — and I've got to play carefully, there."
"I thought she would be soft, with the husband out of the way."
"So did I, worse luck. But Anita Marie tells me that a nephew has blown in from the sticks to mess up the game. That won't mean anything when I begin to work; but it would be just as well if friend nephew wasn't around."
"Because—"
"Because of what Slade pulled. This nephew may be a wise boy. Slade said it was O.K. after he spotted the lay. He did the job so clean that even Anita Marie doesn't suspect. But a nephew, right there in the house—"
"He could never trace Slade."
"Right! But he could suspect that something was wrong. I'll he watching him like a hawk, chief. If his only trouble is not being able to see the light, I'll fix that. Skeptics are my meat — with gravy in addition."
"You say Anita Marie has no idea about—"
"That dumb dollar-grabber?" The voice of Rajah Brahman was contemptuous. "Say, chief, she's the dumbest spook queen along the whole route. Thinks because she brings a lot of people into her camp that she's good.