Always remember that he has something up his sleeve." "That's all right, Slate," he said.

"I promise you I'll think out every move on the board.

I shall risk nothing until I can see my way clear ahead.

Meanwhile, you can work on this." He wrote a few sentences on a sheet of paper, which he folded up and passed across the table.
"Don't open it now," he said.

"Think it over and don't mind putting suggestions up to me if anything occurs to you.