"Confound it!" cried Syme. "And we don't know where he is."
"Yes," said the other in his curious, absent-minded way, "I know
where he is myself."
"Will you tell me?" asked Syme with eager eyes.
"I will take you there," said the Professor, and took down his
own hat from a peg.
Syme stood looking at him with a sort of rigid excitement.
"What do you mean?" he asked sharply. "Will you join me? Will
you take the risk?"
"Young man," said the Professor pleasantly, "I am amused to
observe that you think I am a coward. As to that I will say only
one word, and that shall be entirely in the manner of your own
philosophical rhetoric. You think that it is possible to pull down
the President. I know that it is impossible, and I am going to try
it," and opening the tavern door, which let in
