Then we thought we were safe, just because the world was big and wide; because we had made our escape to Europe we thought that we were out of his circuit, that we were beyond his key-call--but here we are being led and dragged back to him, through Keenan.

But now, just because there is still an ocean between us, you begin to believe that he has given up every thought of getting even!" "Well, isn't it about time he did?
We've beaten him twice, at his own game, and I see no reason why we shouldn't do it again!" "But how often can we be the glass snake?
I mean, how many times can we afford to leave something behind, and break away, and hope to grow whole and sound again?
And when will MacNutt get us where we can't break away?
I tell you, Jim, you don't know this man as I know him! You haven't understood yet what a cruelly designing and artful and vindictive and long-waiting enemy he can be.

You haven't seen him break and crush people, as I once did.

It's the memory of that makes me so afraid of him!" "There's just the trouble, Frank," cried Durkin.

"The man has terrified and intimidated you, until you think he is the only enemy you have.