"What's it all mean, anyway ?" "Try a brown bean," Burton suggested softly.

"They aren't half bad." "Very likely poison," Mr.Waddington said, suspiciously.
Burton said nothing for a moment.

He had taken up the sheet of paper and was gazing at the untranslated portion.
"I wonder," he murmured, "if there is any one who could tell us what the other part of it means ?" "The d--d thing smells all right," Mr.Waddington declared.

"Here goes!" He broke off a brown bean and swallowed it.

Burton turned round just in time to see the deed.