My young friend, you have indeed been favored!" "Let me understand this thing," Burton said, anxiously.

"Those pages say that if one eats a green leaf after the bean, the change wrought in one will become absolutely permanent ?" "That is so," the professor assented.

"Now all that you have to do, is to eat a green leaf from the little tree.

After that, you will have no more need of those three beans, and you can therefore give them to me." Burton made no attempt to produce his little silver box.
"First of all," he said, "I must test the truth of this.

I cannot run any risks.