Washington shuddered slightly at the suggestion, then his face took on a dreamy look and he dropped into a trance of thought.

After a little, Sellers asked him what he was grinding in his mental mill.
"Well, this.

Have you got some secret project in your head which requires a Bank of England back of it to make it succeed ?" The Colonel showed lively astonishment, and said: "Why, Hawkins, are you a mind-reader ?" "I?
I never thought of such a thing." "Well, then how did you happen to drop onto that idea in this curious fashion?
It's just mind-reading, that's what it is, though you may not know it.

Because I have got a private project that requires a Bank of England at its back.

How could you divine that?
What was the process?
This is interesting." "There wasn't any process.