Tell me, what do you think of doing with the rest ?" "I am not sure," Mr.Waddington admitted, after a brief pause.

"We are confronted from the beginning with the fact that there isn't a living soul who would believe our story.

If we tried to publish it, people would only look upon it as an inferior sort of fiction, and declare that the idea had been used before.

I thought of having one of the beans resolved into its constituents by a scientific physician, but I doubt if I'd get any one to treat the matter seriously.

Of course," he went on, "if there were any quantity of the beans, so that we could prove the truth of our statements upon any one who professed to doubt them, we might be able to put them to some practical use.