"
"What do you want?"
"I want to overhear every word that is spoken here to-night."
"You are dead on to it all?"
"I am."
"Good enough, I am with you, and you know that when I say so I mean what
I say."
"I do."
"You shall have the whole business if it's opened up here to-night.
Follow me."
CHAPTER IX
LUCK AND SKILL RUN OUR HERO INTO A GREAT "OPENING" ON TO THE BIG
ORGANIZATION, AND LIGHT STRIKES IN VERY DARK CORNERS.
It is not necessary to explain to our readers our hero's great hold on
the man Credo; but he knew his man well and knew that when Credo said,
"I am with you," the fellow did mean just what he said. Credo led our
hero to a rear room and once there he remarked:
"It's dead against me what I am doing. I had a big stake in this
enterprise."
"You haven't lost one, old man, the lines are drawn close."
"That's all right so far; but is it necessary that I tumble from
anything you may pick up to-night?"
"No, you are safe; you will not come into it."
The man's face was at once wreathed into a smile.
"I know you, Mr. Dunne."
"Yes, and I mean it. You will not in any way be involved."
"They need never know that I keeled 'em over?"
"Never."
"You know your business. When you talk you know what you say.
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