“I do not.”
“And you vonder vere they are?”
“Yes.”
“Your surprise is werry natural,” said Doctor Norris, with great gravity. “I am out of those inwaluable medicines at present, but ven I get to my laboratory, I shall roll ’em out wholesale.”
“Then you make them?”
“In course. I couldn’t trust anybody else.”
Then, after a pause, he added, slowly:
“I don’t know but that I might let you into my secrets if— What did you say your name was?”
I repeated my alias, and told my fictitious history.
“So you ain’t got nothink to do?”