"And then?" asked Otto.
"Why, then he's waiting for me!"
Conrad expressed his brutal opinion:
"I suggest we break his head with his axe."
But Vorski flew into a rage:
"If you touch a single hair of his head, you're a dead man!"
"Still . . ."
"Still what?"
"He may be an enemy . . . he may be the one whom we were pursuing last night . . . . Remember . . . the white robe."
"You're the biggest fool I ever met! Do you think that, at his age, he could have kept us on the run like that?"