'We can do with him what we like,' he asserted confidently.

'Oh, yes.
Certainly we must hasten to pay a visit to that--' (another awful descriptive epithet quite unfit for repetition).

'Devil take me if we don't pull off a coup that will set us all up for a long time.' "He saw all that lot of dollars melted into bars and disposed of somewhere on the China coast.

Of the escape after the _coup_ he never doubted.

There was Niclaus's prau to manage that in.
"In his enthusiasm he pulled his stumps out of his pockets and waved them about.