When it arrived before the letter which it should choose to form the word required, it stopped; but if it stopped it was because it heard the noise--imperceptible to all others--of a toothpick that the American snapped in his pocket.

That noise was the signal for Munito to take the letter and arrange it in suitable order." "And that was all the secret ?" cried Dick Sand.
"That was the whole secret," replied Mrs.Weldon.

"It is very simple, like all that is done in the matter of prestidigitation.

In case of the American's absence, Munito would be no longer Munito.

I am, then, astonished, his master not being there--if, indeed, the traveler, Samuel Vernon, has ever been its master--that Dingo could have recognized those two letters." "In fact," replied Captain Hull, "it is very astonishing.