"Yes. Go ahead."
Grim crossed the place to the corner where old alligator-eyes stood herded with the other prisoners.
"Are you guilty?" he demanded.
"No. Guilty of nothing. I came out of curiosity to see what was happening here."
"Thought so. Can you hold your tongue? Then go! Get out of here!"
Alligator-eyes didn't wait for a second urging, nor stay to question his good luck, but went off in a shambling hurry.
"You are mad!" exclaimed Scharnhoff. "That man is the next-worst!"
"Grim, are you sure that's wise?" asked Goodenough.
"We can get him any time we want him, sir," Grim answered. "He lacks Noureddin Ali's gift of slipperiness."
He turned to Narayan Singh.