"Go to it, my laddy buck," Regan conceded, then, with a wave of suspicion, "I'll get him for you myself."
And, having ascertained that Bascom was really at the other end of the line, he turned the receiver over to Francis. "You were right," the latter assured Bascom. "Regan's all you said and worse. Go right on with your plan of campaign. We've got him where we want him, though the old fox won't believe it for a moment. He thinks he's going to strip me, clean me out." Francis paused to think up the strongest way of carrying on his bluff, then continued. "I'll tell you something you don't know. He's the one who manoauvred the raid from the beginning. So now you know who we're going to bury."
And, after a little more of similar talk, he hung up. "You see," he explained, again from the door
