Da! We need all hands, is it not so?
Let us put together our knowledge and our brains and resources--and even a poonch of a mule is a resource," he looked wickedly at O'Keefe, "and pull our boat into quiet waters again.

After that--" "All very well, Marakinoff," interjected Larry, "but I don't feel very safe in any boat with somebody capable of shooting me through the back." Marakinoff waved a deprecatory hand.
"It was natural that," he said, "logical, da! Here is a very great secret, perhaps many secrets to my country invaluable--" He paused, shaken by some overpowering emotion; the veins in his forehead grew congested, the cold eyes blazed and the guttural voice harshened.
"I do not apologize and I do not explain," rasped Marakinoff.

"But I will tell you, da! Here is my country sweating blood in an experiment to liberate the world.

And here are the other nations ringing us like wolves and waiting to spring at our throats at the least sign of weakness.

And here are you, Lieutenant O'Keefe of the English wolves, and you Dr.Goodwin of the Yankee pack--and here in this place may be that will enable my country to win its war for the worker.