"Offer to lead them to it on certain conditions.

Think up controversial proposals! Play for time!" Fred shook his head.
"What if it turns out true?
Monty's in Europe.

Suppose he should learn while he's there that the stuff is really in German East--we'd have spoiled his game!" "If the stuff should really be in German East," Will argued, "we've no chance in the world of getting even a broker's share of it, Monty or no Monty! Take my advice and tell 'em what they want to know!" Meanwhile an argument of another kind had started across the room.
Schubert had related with grim amusement to Sergeant Sachse, who was sitting next him, our disapproval of the flogging of the father of the commandant's abandoned woman.
"At what were they shocked ?" wondered Sachse.

"At the flogging, or the intercourse, or because he sent the female packing when she proposed to have a child?
Do they not know that to have children about the premises would be subversive of military excellence ?" "They were shocked at all three things," grinned Schubert, "but chiefly, I think, at the flogging." "Bah! Such a tickling of a native's hide doesn't hurt him to speak of! Wait until they see our court in the morning!" It was that that raised the clamor.

Even Schubert, who might be supposed to have won promotion because he could stay sober longer than the others, was beginning to grow noisy in his speech and to laugh without apparent reason.