'If it were merely a question of destroying an organization it might be managed, for an organization presents a big front.

But it's a question of destroying this one man, and his front is a razor edge.

How are you going to find him?
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, and such a needle! A needle which can become a piece of straw or a tin-tack when it chooses!' 'All the same we've got to do it,' I said, remembering old Peter's lesson on fortitude, though I can't say I was feeling very stout-hearted.
Sir Walter flung himself wearily into an arm-chair.

'I wish I could be an optimist,' he said, 'but it looks as if we must own defeat.

I've been at this work for twenty years, and, though I've been often beaten, I've always held certain cards in the game.