“Ah! I see what you’re driving at.”
“So do we all.”
“We know where it lies; we’ve had good reason to. We’ve been soft to let it lie there so long, and we’d be softer still to let it lie there any longer.”
“Darn it, there’s something in what he says.”
“What do you propose, Alf?”
“That we go in for a good bit of quiet exhumation, and transfer that body, or bones, or whatever relics be left of it, to a safer place. After that’s done let Jerry Rook do his worst.”
“A good idea!”
“Jest the thing, by God!”
“Let’s carry it out, then!”
“When?”