“Well?�
“From this out, you take charge of things, will you? You be chief.�
“No; I won’t do that; but if a suggestion occurs to me I will make it to you, and you can give your orders as you see fit. That will be the better way, although I don’t now think there will be any occasion for such exercise of authority.�
“Maybe not.�
“But there is one thing that I want to do at your office at one o’clock.�
The chief looked at his watch and snapped it shut.
“That will be another half hour, yet,� he said. “What is it that you want to do then?�
“I want to sit at the telephone in your private office at the station house, and do some telephoning to one of my assistants in New York—and I want you to sit beside me and listen, without questioning, when I do it.â€�
“That’s all right. What else?�
“I want the doctor here to join with us in a little plot of mine, to help us out.�