That makes, roughly, fifty-six pounds for a pound in weight.

Now each of these ingots weighs thirty-six pounds, which brings their value to two thousand and a few odd pounds.

There are five hundred ingots on each of these three sides of the room, but on the fourth there are only three hundred, on account of the door, but there cannot be less than two hundred on the floor, which gives us a rough total of two thousand ingots.

So you see, my dear boy, that any broker who could get the contents of this chamber for four million pounds would be doing a nice little stroke of business." "And a week's work!" gasped Robert.

"It makes my head swim." "You will follow me now when I repeat that none of the great schemes which I intend to simultaneously set in motion are at all likely to languish for want of funds.