Therefore it is necessary that we steal a march on 'em.

I know the inside workings of the scheme.

If I can steal back and keep under cover as an advisory chief, so to speak, we can well afford to let 'em rush the matter through, for then we can spring the coup and defeat them for good and all.

But, don't you see, old man, unless they _know_ that I've gone to Vienna they won't undertake the thing.

That's why I'm asking you to go on to Vienna and pose as Roxbury Medcroft while I steal back to London and set the charge under these demmed bloodsuckers.