"We'll do it, sir.
"You know my address?"
"Yes, Emory E. Bissell. But shall we direct to this hotel?"
"You may as well. But never mind the Emory; perhaps we've used that name too freely already among the wooden nutmegs, E. E. Bissell will do."
"All right, sir, we'll remember. And now is there anything more to say?"
"I wish you could tell me how Conductor Mason and Peter Coffey are coming out in this affair?"
"That's more than we know ourselves, sir. They were so closely connected with Way in the illicit liquor trade and otherwise, that it's more than likely to go hard with them."
"I'm sorry; but I see no help for it."
"There is no help for it—if we're to get off scot-free."
"Well, you'd better do that—if you can."