You and Lieutenant O'Keefe do the same, and this man Olaf, what he can of his strength, for I do not think his usefulness lies in his brains, no." "In effect, Goodwin," broke in Larry as I hesitated, "the professor's proposition is this: he wants to know what's going on here but he begins to realize it's no one man's job and besides we have the drop on him.

We're three to his one, and we have all his hardware and cutlery.

But also we can do better with him than without him--just as he can do better with us than without us.

It's an even break--for a while.

But once he gets that information he's looking for, then look out.