You and I both know that there are weapons in this place which can be made use of by persons wholly without scruples, which are scarcely available at home.

I want you to keep your eyes open.

I have very few friends here whom I can wholly trust.

It is my purpose to call in here every morning at ten o'clock for my letters, and if I fail to arrive within half-an-hour of that time without having given you verbal notice, something will have happened to me.

You understand what I mean ?" "You mean that you are threatened with assassination ?" the manager asked gravely.
"Practically it amounts to that," Hunterleys admitted.