"Not exactly."
"Electricity? Magnetism? Thought-waves?"
Hugo chuckled. "No. All wrong."
"Could you do it on a modern safe?"
"I don't know."
President Mills rubbed his fingers on the mahogany desk. "I presume you were planning that for other purposes?"
"What!" Hugo said.
"Very well done. Very well acted. I will play up to you, Mr.—"
"Danner."
"Danner. I'll play up to this assumption of innocence. You have saved a man's life. You are, of course, blushingly modest. But you have shown your hand rather clearly. Hmmm." He smiled sardonically. "I read a book about a safe-cracker who opened a safe to get a child out—at the expense of his liberty and position—or at the hazard of them, anyhow. Maybe you have read the same book."