human
You can't understand, my dear, all this means to me and will mean to you. I haven't even imagined it myself. Think! We could buy islands, build hospitals, govern nations if the mood prompted us. And all for three weeks' work. Lord, it's--Oh! if I could make you see how big it is--how magnificent.
gpt
I want you, Tony, the rest only frightens me.
human
Forget the money, he said,
gpt
A medicine?
human
Call it a medicine. It's lying out in the open within a little march of the common ways of men and women. I tumbled on the find by a stroke of luck and a little knowledge and a word inside me that whispered, 'Look, go and look.' You've read Kipling's 'Explorer'--I read it you. 'Something lost behind the ranges--something hidden, go you there.' It was like that with me--a pringly feeling--a kind of second sense--expectancy--belief--certainty. Nature has a trick of showing the combination of her treasure safe to one man before the rest--and I was the man.
gpt
What is it you've found?
human
If I tell you you'll keep it secret?
gpt
Yes.
human
Honest?
gpt
Honest.
human
It's radium,
gpt
Radium as it never had been found before. A--whew! an inexhaustible supply. Look--look here!
human
It's the finest piece of radium ever found, he said,