"Look at him walk; look at him walk," whispered the Very Young Man excitedly. The lizard, hardly more than an eighth of an inch long now, but still plainly visible, was wriggling along the top of the ring. "Shove him up by the scratch," he added.
In a moment more the reptile was too small for any but the Doctor with his glass to see. "I guess he got there," he said finally with a smile, as he straightened up. "He was going fast."
"Well, that's all right," said the Very Young Man with a sigh of relief.
The four men again seated themselves; the Big Business Man went back to his figures.
"When do you start?" asked the Banker after a moment.
"November 4th—8 P. M.," answered the Doctor. "Three weeks from to-night."
"We've a lot to do," said the Banker.
"What will this cost, do you figure?" asked the Big Business Man, looking up from his notes.
The Doctor considered a moment.
"We can't take much with us, you know," he said slowly. Then he took a sheet of memoranda from his pockets. "I have already spent for apparatus and chemicals to prepare the drugs"—he consulted his figures—"seventeen hundred and forty dollars, total. What we have still to spend will be very little, I should think. I propose we divide it three ways as we have been doing with the Museum?"