CHAPTER XVIII.
Washington shuddered slightly at the suggestion, then his face took on a dreamy look and he dropped into a trance of thought. After a little, Sellers asked him what he was grinding in his mental mill.
“ Well, this. Have you got some secret project in your head which requires a Bank of England back of it to make it succeed?”
The Colonel showed lively astonishment, and said:
“ Why, Hawkins, are you a mind-reader?”
“ I? I never thought of such a thing.”
“ Well, then how did you happen to drop onto that idea in this curious fashion? It’s just mind-reading, that’s what it is, though you may not know it. Because I have got a private project that requires a Bank of England at its back. How could you divine that? What was the process? This is interesting.”
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