“I’m afraid some one might have seen us on our way from the mine.”
“I couldn’t see anybody,” Harry remarked.
“Nor I, but there may have been some one, nevertheless. The fact is, I never expected to be uneasy on account of my wealth, but that’s the way the case stands just at present. When we were poor I slept like a top.”
“I suppose you wouldn’t care to get rid of your care by throwing the nugget away,” Harry said, with a smile.
“I’m not so uneasy as that yet, but I should feel a little safer if we and the nugget could be transported to Melbourne in five minutes.”
“Suppose some one did see us?” queried Jack.
“Then we may expect a visit some time to-night.”
“One of us might remain awake, Obed.”
“That would be rather hard on us, for we are all tired. I don’t believe I could stay awake all night if I tried.”
“Is there any way of concealing the nugget?”