If this is the original manuscript which we saw the other night, we may learn how it passed from the possession of De Gayangos to my bookcase.

If it is a copy, then we must learn, if possible, who owned it." "Don Pedro said that a transcript or a translation had been made," mentioned Hope.
"Evidently a transcript," said Braddock, glaring at the paper in Random's hand.

"But how could that find its way from Lima to this place ?" "It might have been packed up with the mummy," suggested Archie.
"No," contradicted Random decisively, "in that event, the man in Malta from whom the mummy was bought would have discovered the emeralds, and would have taken them." "Perhaps he did.

We have nothing to show that Bolton's assassin committed the crime for the sake of the jewels." "He must have done so," cried the Professor, irritably, "else there is no motive for the commission of the crime.

But I think myself that we must start at the other end to find a clue.