Here Tom Seddon rushed into the room, followed by a doctor carrying a stomach-pump in his hand.
"Here, doctor! here!" exclaimed Pate. "Quick! quick!"
"Open his month," said the doctor.
Pate proceeded to obey instructions, and succeeded in opening the Long Green Boy's mouth, but he unfortunately got his fingers in the orifice, and the jaws closed firmly on them.
"Oh! oh! oh!" exclaimed Pate, with his forefinger between the teeth of the dying man.
"Force his jaws open," said the doctor, holding the tube ready for insertion.
"Oh! oh! oh! oh! gracious heavens!" exclaimed Pate.
Toney Belton, by an adroit use of his thumb, succeeded in opening the jaws and releasing Pate, who danced about the room, exclaiming, "Oh! oh! oh!" while the doctor hastily thrust the tube down his patient's throat.
A quantity of fluid was pumped into a basin.
"What did you say he had taken?" inquired the doctor, examining the contents of the basin.