“You see, I have thought this business over pretty carefully; I have thought you over pretty carefully—and I like you. Now I have been some time on this case, and I understand it, I think. I understand you, and McGlory, and Stenzenberger, and the lot of you. But there is one place where I'm still weak,—that is Spencer and his places up there in Lake Huron. That is the only thing we haven't run down. I could get it of course in time, but it would take time, and that's just what I don't want to take now. I'm depending on you to set me right. Of course it's your privilege, if you want, to shut your mouth up tight. But I don't take you for that sort of a chap. I have a way of my own of going at these things. There are some of our men would bully you, but that isn't my way—not with you. I 'll tell you right here, that any help you can give me will be a mighty good thing for you in the long run.”
“What do you expect me to tell you?”
“You will know at the proper time. All I want to find out now is whether you are going to stand by me and help me through with it or not.”
“Why, I will do what I can.”
“What does that mean exactly?”
“I will tell you all I know.”
“All right, sir. Now we understand each other. And I 'll do what I can to make it easy for you.”
“There's one thing—”
“What is it?”
“What are you going to do with us in Milwaukee?”