"I am going to try it, anyhow."
"Good, Patsy! But don't for a moment forget or neglect the danger you will be in every minute you are there."
"I will not."
"You will have to cook up a good story——"
"I have that all ready now."
"Then you can start whenever you please. I shall not interfere with you in the slightest manner."
"But I want a little further instruction, chief."
"The only instruction I have to give you is this: Go there; get among them; become one of them, and one with them; pick up all the information about them that you can, with names and identifications, so that you will be a good witness against them when the time comes."
"I can do that."
"I want you to work independently of me entirely. Your only part of the game, so far as it is directly connected with my part of the work, will be to hold yourself in readiness to lend me a helping hand from the inside at any moment I may happen to want you."