"You can say a great deal more, sir.  I can reconstruct exactly why those warrants were issued.  Some one in your service, in an excess of zeal, caused a pliant judge to issue them... for the purpose of seizing the persons of myself and my guests in order to question us, safely out of your sight.  Out of anyone's sight, sir!  We will discuss all issues with you but we will not be questioned by such as this creature-" Jubal hooked a thumb at the S.S. major "-in some windowless back room!  Sir, I hope for, and expect, justice at your hands... but if those warrants are not canceled at once, if I am not assured by you personally beyond any possibility of quibble that the Man from Mars, Nurse Boardman, and myself will be left undisturbed in our persons, free to come and go, then-" Jubal stopped and shrugged helplessly. "-I must seek a champion elsewhere.  There are, as you know, persons and powers outside the administration who hold deep interest in the affairs of the Man from Mars."