They'll deduce, unless they're lunatics, that someone overheard their conference last night and knew the signal.

That'll make them desperate.

They'll waste no more time on finesse.

They'll use violence at the first chance after the train leaves Haifa." "Rammy's like me; he hates not to have an audience for his tricks," put in Jeremy by way of consolation.
"We've got to stage a new play, that's all," said Grim.

"I'd have the lot of them arrested, but all the good that would do would be to inform the man higher up, who'd tip off another gang by wire to wait for us over the border.