Two smaller electrodes were plunged into the mercury, which gradually curdled and solidified, until it had resumed the solid form, with a yellowish brassy shimmer.
"What lies in the moulds now is platinum," remarked Raffles Haw.

"We must take it from the troughs and refix it in the large electrodes.
So! Now we turn on the current again.

You see that it gradually takes a darker and richer tint.

Now I think that it is perfect." He drew up the lever, removed the electrodes, and there lay a dozen bricks of ruddy sparkling gold.
"You see, according to our calculations, our morning's work has been worth twenty-four thousand pounds, and it has not taken us more than twenty minutes," remarked the alchemist, as he picked up the newly-made ingots, and threw them down among the others.
"We will devote one of them to experiment," said he, leaving the last standing upon the glass insulator.

"To the world it would seem an expensive demonstration which cost two thousand pounds, but our standard, you see, is a different one.