He stared with bulging eyes at Burke and his companion, but Burke walked straight through, looking neither to right nor left.
Only at the foot of the stairs, he paused an instant, glancing back.
"I'll see you in the morning, Donovan," he said.

"Thanks for all you've done." To which Kelly replied, fingering a bump on his forehead with a rueful grin, "All's well that ends well, my son, and sure it's a pleasure to serve you.

I flatter myself, moreover, that you wouldn't have done the trick on your own.

Hoffstein will stand more from me than from any other living man." The hint of a smile touched Burke's set lips.

"Show me the man that wouldn't!" he said; and turning, marched his unresisting prisoner up the stairs..