"As for that, time will no doubt disclose much.

The point is--trouble can be forestalled." "Aw--show your hand!" cut in Will, leaning in front of Fred.

"I've seen you Heinies fishing for graft too often in the States not to recognize symptoms! Spill the bait can! There's no other way to tell if we'll bite! Tell us what you're driving at!" "Ivory!" said Schubert savagely and simply, shutting his jaws after the word like a snap with a steel spring.

It would have broken the teeth of an ordinary human.
"What ivory ?" We all did our best to look blank.
"You know! Tippoo Tib's ivory! It belongs to the German government! Emin Pasha, whom that adventurer Stanley rescued against his will, agreed to sell the secret to us, but we never agreed on a price and he died without telling.

Gott! He would have told had I had the interviewing of him! It was known in Zanzibar that you and a certain English lord shared the secret.