“That’s some comfort,” agreed the prospector, beginning to eat his dinner.
“Whether it’s so or not,” said Jack, with a sagacious wag of the head, “I think we’d better keep a brighter lookout while we’re here. No telling what piece of rascality those men may put up against us. The possession of this mine, of whose richness Clymer is assured, is temptation enough for scoundrels like them even to attempt our lives. I move we each stand watch so many hours every night.”
“Second der motions,” shouted Meyer, with his mouth full of food.
Jack’s proposition being deemed a prudent one it was adopted.
CHAPTER XV.
STARTLING NEWS.
The development of the old deserted copper mine, which had been duly christened the Pandora, went on daily.
The vein or rather ledge of ore which Prawle had originally tapped penetrated right into the hill which formed the topographical outline of the Jim Sanders claim.
It furnished copper almost in a virgin state of richness, and every pound the boys took out was fully up to the quality of the original samples produced by the prospector in the little surgery at Sackville.
The boys were enthusiastic over the prospects in sight.