He can extract gold from seawater or silver from pineapples.

Incidentally, he is of a scientific turn of mind and can rattle off the Morse alphabet as deftly as any operator in the business.

Occasionally he has, in the interest of finance, tapped a wire." "Tapped a wire!" Instantly I regarded Billington with a new interest.

So at last I had met one of those famous gentry of whom I had so often heard! "Never again, I fancy!" laughed Charlie.

"My friend, you have saved a lot of poor devils a deal of trouble.