The news was all over the village this morning.

I could hardly help knowing it.

And I believe that the mummy has been taken to your house, Professor." "It has," admitted Braddock dryly.

"I took it myself from Mrs.Jasher's arbor in a hand-cart, with the assistance of Cockatoo.

But when I made an examination this morning in the presence of Hope and Don Pedro, I found that the swathings of the body had been ripped up, and that the emeralds mentioned in that manuscript had been stolen." "Strange!" said Random with a frown; "and by whom ?" "No doubt by the assassin of Sidney Bolton." "Probably." Random kicked a mat straight with his foot.