Then by using your eyes, you could have told whether Mr.Dugdale was surprised at seeing the spoon there, or not.

His actions more than anything he might say would have given you a pointer, don't you see ?" "Yes, I can understand that all right, now you've mentioned it, Hugh," chuckled the other.

"It's so easy to grip a thing after some one has shown you how.

Remember those envious Spanish courtiers who tried to take Columbus down a peg by saying it was a simple thing to discover America, since all you had to do was to set sail, and heading into the west keep going on till you bumped up against the islands that at that time they thought were the East Indies.

Then, you remember, Columbus asked them to stand an egg on end, which they tried and tried without success, until he gently cracked one end, and it stood up all right.
Oh! yes, I can see now I might have done a lot of things that didn't happen to occur to me just then." "I'm sorry you let such a good chance slip by without nailing it," said Hugh.
"Well, it might happen," added Thad, as though an idea had come into his brain like an electric flash, "that another opportunity will come along, and if it does, I give you my word I'll learn something worth while." "How did you like the old gentleman," continued Hugh; "and after meeting him, do you take any stock in the stories that have been floating around town about his being the clever rascal who disappeared from Wall Street two years ago ?" "Why, he seemed very pleasant, so far as I could see," replied Thad, slowly.