“And lose the chance of rounding up more of them?”
“They’ll be too many for us, I fear,” said Danforth, although without displaying any particular fear of such an outcome.
“They will certainly outnumber us—reds and all.”
“Nice prospect.”
“But forewarned is forearmed, eh?”
“Right you are, Bill! We have the advantage of knowing that they are coming, whereas they will labor under the disadvantage of believing we are unsuspicious.”
“Yes.”
“But hived up in this place——”
“We haven’t got to stay hived up,” interrupted the scout. “And we don’t want to.”
“You’ve got a plan, Bill?”