I saw that for myself, as did Hope and Don Pedro, in whose presence I opened the mummy case." Mrs.Jasher rose in her astonishment.
"Are the emeralds gone ?" she gasped.
"Yes! yes! yes!" cried Braddock irritably.

"Am I not telling you so?
I almost believe in Hervey's accusation of Random, and yet the boy exonerated himself very forcibly--very forcibly indeed." "Will you explain all that has happened, father ?" said Lucy, who was becoming more and more perplexed by this rambling chatter.

"We are quite in the dark." "So am I: so is Hope: so is every one," chuckled Braddock.

"Ah, yes: of course, you were not present when these events took place." "What events ?--what events ?" demanded Mrs.Jasher, now quite exasperated.
"I am about to tell you," snapped her future husband, and related all that had taken place since the arrival of Captain Hervey in the museum at the Pyramids.

The women listened with interest and with growing astonishment, only interrupting the narrator with a simultaneous exclamation of indignation when they heard that Sir Frank was accused.
"It is utterly and wholly absurd," cried Lucy angrily.