I believe that we shall do better by keeping our own counsel.

You and I can work secretly in the matter.

I may have some suggestions to make when I have considered it more fully; but for the present I propose that we treat the matter as a hallucination of yours.

We shall hear in due course if this stolen information goes across the water.

If it does--well, we shall know how to act." "You mean this ?" I asked breathlessly.