In fact, I am more interested in them than in anything else, not excepting the telephone--which makes Aladdin's lamp look like a firefly in the sunshine." "I suppose," said Flo, staring into his face with curious interest, "that you will introduce motion pictures into your island of Sangoa, when you return ?" "I suppose so," he answered, a little absently.

"I had not considered that seriously, as yet, but my people would appreciate such a treat, I'm sure." This speech seemed to destroy, in a manner, their shrewd conjecture that he was in America to purchase large quantities of films.

Why, then, should Goldstein have paid such abject deference to this unknown islander?
In his own room, after the party had separated for the night, Mr.Merrick remarked to Arthur Weldon as they sat smoking their cigars: "Young Jones is evidently possessed of some means." "So it seems," replied Arthur.

"Perhaps his father, the scientific recluse, had accumulated some money, and the boy came to America to get rid of it.

He will be extravagant and wasteful for awhile, and then go back to his island with the idea that he has seen the world." Uncle John nodded.
"He is a rather clean-cut young fellow," said he, "and the chances are he won't become dissipated, even though he loses his money through lack of worldly knowledge or business experience.