Look
here--" He stopped speaking for a moment and, stepping forward, lifted up
another tubing from the table, and unfastened it at one of the joints.
Then he held it up for all to see.
"See that stuff in there? That's tungsten. Perhaps you don't all know
what tungsten is. Well, it's a valuable commodity that is mined from the
earth, and which is used expressly in the making of electric lamps. Our
good friend Adolph, like his brother, has the same twist of brain.
Instead of keeping the tubes, he returns them with the rather thin excuse
that they are of the wrong gauge, and fills them with this tungsten, from
the famous tungsten mines for which Belgium holds first place in the
world. And so the stuff is shipped in absolutely free of duty, while our
friend here unloads it, supplies the raw material to one or two firms in
town, trading under the name of Jonathan Brent (you see I've got the
whole facts, Brellier), and uses some himself for this factory, which is
the 'blind' for his other trading ideas. Very clever, isn't it?"
The judge nodded.
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