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It was decided very differently from the way he imagined.
He had conceived a plan of seeking out in Balttin the person who had given himself out to be Carson and of saying to him something like this: "Whatever happens, I spit on your money; lead me at once to George Thomas, with whom I have business, and in return you shall get a good explosive, say fulminate of iodine with a guaranteed detonation of some eleven thousand metres per second, or a certain acid with a good thirteen thousand, my dear sir, and you can do with it what you like. " They would simply be mad not to take advantage of such an offer.