"Mr.Wood will be here presently." "Mr.Wood!" exclaimed Jack, in surprise.

"How have you managed to communicate with him ?" Abraham, who had listened attentively to the foregoing conversation,--not a word of which escaped him,--now drew in his breath, and brought his ear closer to the boards.
"By means of the watchman who had the charge of me," replied Thames.
"Curse him!" muttered Abraham.
"Hist!" exclaimed Jack.

"I thought I heard a noise.

Speak lower.
Somebody may be on the watch--perhaps, that old ginger-hackled Jew." "I don't care if he is," rejoined Thames, boldly.

"He'll learn that his plans will be defeated." "He may learn how to defeat yours," replied Jack.
"So he may," rejoined Abraham, aloud, "so he may." "Death and fiends!" exclaimed Jack; "the old thief _is_ there.