The fellow has managed to surround himself with such an air of good faith from start to finish that it will be deuced hard to get at him." "What will he do now ?" said Beatem.
"I tell you what he'll do.

Mark my words.

Within twenty-four hours he'll clear out and be out of the state, and if they want to get him they'll have to extradite.

I tell you he's a man of extraordinary capacity.

The rest of us are nowhere beside him." In which, perhaps, there was some truth.
* * * * * "Well, mother," said the Wizard, when he reached the thousand-dollar suite, after his interview with Skinyer and Beatem, his face irradiated with simple joy, "it's done.