"I am convinced that you over-try your strength.

I should be so glad to help you, and I know a little of chemistry." "Do you, indeed ?" said Raffles Haw, raising his eyebrows.

"I had no idea of that; it is very seldom that the artistic and the scientific faculties go together." "I don't know that I have either particularly developed.

But I have taken classes, and I worked for two years in the laboratory at Sir Josiah Mason's Institute." "I am delighted to hear it," Haw replied with emphasis.

"That may be of great importance to us.