"I am going to use it to strike a blow against the abominable system of robbery and corruption which is ruining the finest of all God's countries." "Very well," Weiss said, "I am not going to give away our defence, of course.

We may treat the document as a forgery, concocted by you or by Phineas Duge, either of whom would have sufficient motives.

We may insist upon it that it was an after-dinner joke.

We may contest the meaning of the text, and swear that we intended to use none but legitimate methods in this fight.

Or, to put the whole matter before you, we may use such powers as we possess to see that you are put out of harm's way before you have an opportunity to make use of that paper.