"You have friends, then, Macdougal, who will avenge you, eh ?" "I have no friends," Macdougal replied, "but there is one coming whose wit and cunning, science and skill are all-conquering.

He will brush you away, Sanford Quest, like a fly.

Wait a few weeks." "You interest me," Quest murmured.

"Tell me some more about this great master ?" "I shall tell you nothing," Macdougal replied.

"You will hear nothing, you will know nothing.