I don't know's you'll believe it, but I've just found out, for a fact, that some painters get twenty-two thousand dollars for one picture.

For _one_, mind you.

And a little mite of a thing, too, that couldn't have cost scarcely anything to paint.
Maybe novels sell for just as much.

_I_ don't know." His companion laughed heartily.

"I'm afraid not, Captain," he said.
"Few, at any rate.