it is, the more certainly will I reveal it to you."

You see, I was working up the interest. It was
getting pretty high, too; you could see that by the
craning necks all around, and the half-suspended
breathing. So now I climaxed it:

"If you make no mistake -- if you tell me truly
what I want to know -- I will give you two hundred
silver pennies."

"The fortune is mine! I will tell you what you
would know."

"Then tell me what I am doing with my right hand."