May I smoke ?" His companion nodded, and he drew out his cigar-case, selecting from it a particularly fragrant Havana.
"You don't do this sort of thing, or I'd offer you one,"-- he said,--"Pity you don't, it soothes the nerves.

But I know your 'fads'; you are too closely acquainted with the human organism to either smoke or drink.

Well--every man to his own method! Now what you want me to do is this--to represent the force and meaning of a certain substance which you have discovered, to the government of the United States and induce them to purchase it.

Is that so ?" "That is so!" and Roger Seaton fixed his eyes on Gwent's hard, lantern-jawed face with a fiery intensity--"Remember, it's not child's play! Whoever takes what I can give, holds the mastery of the world! I offer it to the United States--but I would have preferred to offer it to Great Britain, being as I am, an Englishman.

But the dilatory British men of science have snubbed me once--and I do not intend them to have the chance of doing it again.