"Of course," he added, "it couldn't run for long, but we might give it a turn for a month or two." "The worst of it is," put in Mr Shanklin, "it's a ticklish sort of business that some people are uncommon sharp at smelling out; one has to be very careful.

There's the advertisement, for instance.

You'll have to smuggle it into the _Rocket_, my boy.

It wouldn't do for the governors to see it; they'd be up to it.

But they'd never see it after it was in, and the _Rocket's_ just the paper for us." "I'll try and manage that," said Durfy.