Let us suppose, for example, that they have found a marvellous mine, where you can just shovel it out like clay from a pit.

Well, then, he sends it on to this one, and he has his furnaces and his chemicals, and he refines and purifies it and makes it fit to sell.

That's my explanation of it, Robert.

Eh, has the old man put his finger on it ?" "But if that were true, father, the gold must go back again." "So it does, Robert, but a little at a time.

Ha, ha! I've had my eyes open, you see.