I do not mean the money that the world pours into its own stomach.

That is always afloat--changing hands daily.

I mean the Great Reserves.

We watch those, you understand.

And if one of the Great Reserves, or even one of the smaller reserves, moves, we wonder why it is being moved and we nearly always find out." "One supposes," said the Minister, hazarding an opinion for the first time, and he gave it with a sidelong glance toward the window, "that it is passing from the hands of a financier possessing money into those of one who has none." "Precisely.