"I wish your Liras were in Tophet," he continued, presently.

"How can people have the bad taste to hide?
It only makes ingenious persons the more determined to find them." He seemed talkative, and as I was so sad and lonely I encouraged him by a little stimulus of doubt.

I wish I had doubted him sooner, and differently.
"What is the use ?" I asked.

"We shall never find them." "'Never' is a great word,'" said Benoni.

"You do not know what it means.