If it were, then the contingent profit was worth the slight additional risk.

But a human body is a very difficult thing to dispose of, especially to a person of so little scientific culture as myself.
"It is curious that I considered this question for a quite considerable time before the obvious solution presented itself.

I turned over at least a dozen methods of disposing of the body, and rejected them all as impracticable.

Then, suddenly, I remembered the mummy upstairs.
"At first it only occurred to me as a fantastic possibility that I could conceal the body in the mummy-case.

But as I turned over the idea, I began to see that it was really practicable; and not only practicable but easy; and not only easy but eminently safe.