"So it would seem," replied the senator. And then, unable to hold in any longer, he cried out:
"Nick Carter, I never had so much fun in all my life. I never saw such a show as that one. I wouldn't have missed it for a thousand dollars. The 'Greatest show on earth' is a joke to that one. If Barnum was alive and could get hold of it, your fortune would be made."
"It was funny," assented Nick.
"Funny! that word can't express it."
"I don't think that any of these men regarded it as funny, however," said Nick.
"No; I rather guess not. From their standpoint, it, must have been terrible."
"It was-at the beginning. But I only gave them the full force of the current for an instant."
"One would suppose that even that would have killed some of them, Carter."
"No. There were too many of them taking it, for one thing. The stronger absorbed some of the shock from the weaker ones. Put as it was, three of them fainted, although they came around again, almost at once- as soon as I lessened the shock."
"What are you intending to do now?" asking the senator.