I have come in to warn you that if you have any last messages to leave, you had better give them to me now." "This is a pretty good bluff you're putting up!" Dorward exclaimed contemptuously.

"The long and short of it is, I suppose, that you want me to break the seal of this document and let you read it." Bellamy shook his head.
"It is too late for that, Dorward," he said.

"If the seal were broken, they'd very soon guess where I came in, and it wouldn't help the work I have in hand for me to be picked up with a bullet in my forehead on the railway track." Dorward frowned uneasily.
"What are you here for, anyway, then ?" he asked.
"Well, frankly, not to argue with you," Bellamy answered.

"As a matter of fact, you are of no use to me any longer.

I am sorry, old man.