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Updated: June 16, 2025
After a few moments' thought, his face set and expressionless, Brookings said: "No, Doctor. I do not think that the Corporation would care to go into a matter of this kind. It is too flagrant a violation of law, and we can afford to buy it from Seaton after he proves its worth." "Bah!" snorted DuQuesne. "Don't try that on me, Brookings.
I suggested that we get either Seaton or DuQuesne of Rare Metals to help us on it, and he said that they had both refused to touch it, or words to that effect. If those two turned down a chance to work on a thing as big as this would be, there probably is nothing in this particular solution that is worth a rap. But what Brookings says goes, around here, so it's you for the woods.
Brookings told him briefly of the failures to secure the solution and the plans, of the death of the three men sent to silence Shiro, and of all the other developments. DuQuesne listened, his face impassive. "Well," he said as Brookings ceased. "I thought you would bull it, but not quite so badly. But there's no use whining now.
I can't use my original plan of attack in force, as they are prepared and might be able to stand us off until the police could arrive." He thought deeply for a time, then said, intensely: "If I go into this thing, Brookings, I am in absolute command. Everything goes as I say. Understand?" "Yes. It's up to you, now." "All right, I think I've got it.
The stranger broke the silence. "I'm Margaret Spencer," she began abruptly, "former secretary to His Royal Highness, Brookings of Steel. They swindled my father out of an invention worth millions and he died, broken-hearted. I got the job to see if I couldn't get enough evidence to convict them, and I had quite a lot when they caught me.
We will be so cautious that, even if anyone should get suspicious, they can't possibly link us together, and until they do link us together, we are all safe. No, Brookings, a raid in force is the only sure and safe way. What is more natural than a burglary of a rich man's house? It will be a simple affair.
We want to get action," said Brookings, as he wrote an order on the cashier for twenty-five thousand dollars in small-to-medium bills. "That is cheap enough, considering what DuQuesne's rough stuff would probably cost. Report tomorrow about four, over our private phone no, I'll come down to the café, it's safer."
"I might have expected this of Crane," he thought, half aloud, "after all the warning that fool Brookings persisted in giving him. This is the natural result of his nonsense. The rest of the solution is probably in the safest safe-deposit vault in the United States. But I've got their plans and notes, and enough solution for the present.
If you don't believe that now, you will very shortly, after you try it alone." Brookings, caught in his duplicity and half-convinced of the truth of DuQuesne's statements, still temporized. "You're modest, aren't you, Doctor?" he asked, smiling. "Modest? No," said the other calmly. "Modesty never got anybody anything but praise, and I prefer something more substantial.
In fact, you have helped this company several times in various deal er, in various ways." "Say it. Brookings. 'Deals' is the right word. This one is going to be the biggest ever. The beauty of it is that it should be easy one simple burglary and an equally simple killing and won't mean wholesale murder, as did that...." "Oh, no, Doctor, not murder. Unavoidable accidents."
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