Let me speak." And speak he did without waiting for a reply.
"It's all in a nutshell, dear Mr.and Mrs.Dunlop, and I'll tell you in two or three sentences what your worthy sailor-brother would have kept you up all night to hear.

Now listen! Briton, you lie down! Good again! Now I, Dan Peterkin, am a man who has been used to study hard, and think hard.

You follow me so far?
Good again! "Well, there is one thing has taken me years to work out, and that is, where in this world gold and coal are to be found.

And I've done it.

I can go right to the spots.