Annixter alone was recalcitrant.
"It's too easy," he declared.

"No, I'm not satisfied.

Where's Shelgrim in all this?
Why don't he show his hand, damn his soul?
The thing is yellow, I tell you.

There's a big fish in these waters somewheres.

I don't know his name, and I don't know his game, but he's moving round off and on, just out of sight.