Before he had time to use his strength to free himself, Robert had knotted the cord behind him and tied it to the bedpost.

Then the four children, overcoming the priest's wrigglings and kickings, tied his legs with more rope.
'I thought,' said Robert, breathing hard, and drawing the last knot tight, 'he'd have a try for OURS, so I got the ropes out of the box-room, so as to be ready.' The girls, with rather white faces, applauded his foresight.
'Loosen these bonds!' cried Rekh-mara in fury, 'before I blast you with the seven secret curses of Amen-Ra!' 'We shouldn't be likely to loose them AFTER,' Robert retorted.
'Oh, don't quarrel!' said Anthea desperately.

'Look here, he has just as much right to the thing as we have.

This,' she took up the Amulet that had swallowed the other one, 'this has got his in it as well as being ours.

Let's go shares.' 'Let me go!' cried the Priest, writhing.
'Now, look here,' said Robert, 'if you make a row we can just open that window and call the police--the guards, you know--and tell them you've been trying to rob us.