"Yes, sir."
"Can you remember everything that happened, a—say, six years ago?"
"I can try," said Phipps, with an intelligent glance into Mr. Belcher's eyes.
"Do you remember a day, about six years ago, when Paul Benedict came into my house at Sevenoaks, with Nicholas Johnson and James Ramsey, and they all signed a paper together?"
"Very well," replied Phipps.
"And do you remember that I said to you, after they were gone, that that paper gave me all of Benedict's patent rights?"
Phipps looked up at the ceiling, and then said:
"Yes, sir, and I remember that I said, 'It will make you very rich, won't it, Mr. Belcher?'"
"And what did I reply to you?"
"You said, 'That remains to be seen.'"