CHAPTER IX.
THE BRIGAND'S CONSPIRACY—THE ARAB ASTROLOGER—HARVEY'S FIRST
APPEARANCE AS A MESMERIST.
"They are making fresh efforts to get Mathias out," said Dick Harvey to his friend Harkaway.
This was the beginning of a conversation which took place at the residence of the Harkaway party just three days after the daring and audacious attack on the hotel.
Mathias had been captured by the patrol while endeavouring to escape, and thrown in gaol again.
"Hang their impudence!" said Jefferson. "Will nothing daunt them? I wish one of them had entered my room the other night; I would have held him faster than it seems the prisons here can."
"These two restless vagabonds are up to their games again," exclaimed Dick.
"You mean Toro?"
"Aye, and Hunston."