“Think tank! What do you mean?”

“Brain, if you like. Think tank, I call it—thought factory, if you like it better. But, say! you were dead, and you have come to life again. I have brought you from the grave.”

“You are mad.”

“Madcap, please; don’t abbreviate my sobriquet.”

“You are insane.”

“Am I?”

“Yes. But tell me, Max, where are we?”

“You are in a boat, I am on the floor; we are in a house belonging to the Gondos——”

“Who?”

“The Gondos.”