Suppose some one should stumble onto it ?" "Well, we've got to take the chance," said Pete.

"And the chance of some one stumbling on our find by blind luck, like we did, isn't a drop in the bucket to the chance that we'll be followed if we try to slip away while these fellows are worked up with the fever.

Seventy-five thousand round dollars to one canceled stamp that some one has his eye glued on us through a telescope right this very now! I wouldn't bet the postage stamp on it, at that odds.

No, sir! Right now things shape up hotter than the seven low places in hell.
"If we go to the mine now--or soon--we'll never get back.

After we show them the place--_adios el mundo_!" "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird," Mitchell quoted soberly.