Grit Lawless - F E Mills Young - Bog

"This job has grown. There has got to be a fourth in it, and the fourth must be a man.-You understand?" The speaker, who was known as the Colonel, took the cigar he was smoking from his mouth the better to emphasise his words, and looked gravely into the serious faces of his audience. It comprised a man of middle-age, bearded, secretive, calculating; and one other.