“And it was a lucky thing for you, Mr. Prawle, that I thought of applying the galvanic battery to your body,” replied Jack Howard, with a significant smile.
“Well, you shan’t never regret it,” answered the prospector heartily.
At that moment the clock in the surgery struck midnight.
Hardly had the last stroke died away when Meyer Dinkelspeil suddenly started to his feet and, pointing toward the window, exclaimed excitedly:
“By shinger! Look, vunce by der vinder—quick! Somepody vos looking in.”
CHAPTER IV.
A FIENDISH ACT.
Meyer’s sudden exclamation rather startled the group, and every eye was turned to the window.
If any one had been looking in, he had taken immediate alarm and vanished, for there wasn’t the sign of an eavesdropper to be seen.
Jack, however, rushed to the window and threw it up.