He was as ragged and unkempt as ever.
"I've been called a deadbeat, and I want it taken back," he said.
"It's slander.

I'm a celebrated mineralogist and assayer.

Tell you how the deep leads run; analyze you anything.

For example, we'll proceed to put this hotel-keeper in the crucible, and see what we get.

It's thirty parts hoggish self-sufficiency, and ten parts ignorance.