And I have explained why I wanted the mummy.

But it never struck me until I hear what you say now, that this mummy," he nodded towards the green case, "was the one which you had stolen at Lima from De Gayangos.

But you must do me the justice, Captain Hervey, to tell Don Pedro that I never countenanced the theft." "No! you were square enough, I guess.

The sin is on my own blessed shoulders, and I don't ask it to be shifted." "What did you do with the copy of the manuscript ?" asked Don Pedro.
Hervey ruminated.
"I can't think," he mused.

"I found a screed of Latin along with the mummy, when I looted it from your Lima house, but it dropped out of my mind as to what became of it.