"You probably won't see it again in this world."
"I'll risk that."
"Good. Let me have it as soon as possible, and all in gold. You may have trouble in raising it just now, but raise it you must. Then.... No, I think that's all. As soon as you let me have it I'll get under way."
"Where are you off to, Raney?" I asked.
I feel that I remain human even in a crisis, and Loring's lack of curiosity was as maddening as O'Rane's uncommunicativeness.
"I'm going for a short holiday abroad," he answered, with a smile.
"Ass!" I said.
"Why?"
"You're of military age. If they don't shoot you as a spy, they'll lock you up till the end of the war."
"Guess you underrate the pres-tige of the U-nited States Government," he answered, with a shattering twang. "I'm doing this stunt as an American citizen."