If they got our number back there we can bluff them into thinking they got it wrong.

I'll let yuh out here and you can walk home.

Mum's the word--get that ?" He had taken only a passive part in the egregious folly of their play, but they climbed out now without protest, subdued and willing to own his leadership.

Perhaps they realized suddenly that he was the soberest man of the lot.

Only once had he drunk on the way home, and that sparingly, when the bottle had made the rounds.