CHAPTER XXV

REVEALS THE DEATH-TRAP WE strained our ears to distinguish the words spoken by the men beneath us, but without avail. They seemed to be at work apparently in the thickness of the ponderous wall some few feet below where we stood. Was it possible that they had ascertained from their plan the place where the gold was hidden? Sometimes it seemed as though they were working upwards towards us, for we could hear a pick upon the stones; and so we waited there, as terriers wait for rats. Through the remainder of the night…