“Very well,” agreed the scientist, after a pause for consideration. “But not until after the yacht is at sea.”
Carroll did not reply directly to this.
“What shall you do?”
“Get out, if I can. I’m ordered to Curaçao. Wisner left word for me.”
“Come down the mountain with me.”
“Impossible. There are matters here to be attended to.”
“Then when will you come down?”
“Before you sail. I must be sure that you get off.”
“You’ll come to the yacht, then?”
“No.”