And if the government learned about it, they'd dump him into prison and throw the key away!
Thus, anyone who happened to find out about it would do one of two things—try to steal it or inform the authorities about it. Either one would mean catastrophe.
And there was only one sure way to keep anyone's mouth shut. Kill them!
Morrow knew he couldn't do that—he didn't have that sort of mentality. Nor could he stand by and let anyone else do it, not even Smitty.
But that was what Smitty had meant: he wouldn't stand by and let it happen, either.
Besides, any murder would bring on an investigation. They couldn't hide from that. So it boiled down to the simple fact that if anyone found out what they were doing, they'd be finished. Dead men don't talk, but they get a lot of other people curious.
Somehow, they had to keep it secret. They couldn't afford to let anyone find out about it.
And that could be disastrous. There had to be some alternative choice, in case anything like that should happen. There had to be an out. Without one, they'd be trapped.
They had to admit that some day, somehow, it would happen. Someone would find them out. And they had to be prepared to handle it. It would have to be handled in some way that didn't involve murder.
What other way was there?