Chapter
6
ANXIETIES“YOU SEEM VERY HAPPY, uncle!” said I to Noel Dorgeroux, who walked briskly on the way to the station, whistling one gay tune after another.
“Yes,” he replied, “lam happy as a man is who has come to a decision.”
“You've come to a decision, uncle?”
“And a very serious one at that. It has cost me a sleepless night; but it's worth it.”
“May I ask... ?”
“Certainly. In two words, it's this: Fm going to pull down the sheds in the Yard and build an amphitheatre there.”
“What for?”
“To exploit the thing... the thing you know of.”
“Now do you mean, to exploit it?”
“Why, it's a tremendously important discovery; and, if properly worked, it will give me the money which I have always been trying for, not for its own sake, but because of the resources which it will bring me,
