Bolton intended to be away--with the emeralds." "Then you do not believe that Hervey placed the manuscript in my room ?" "He declared most emphatically that he did not," said Don Pedro, "when at Pierside yesterday I went to the Sailor's Rest and saw him.

He told Braddock only the other day that he had lost his chance of a sailing vessel, and, as yet, had not got another one.

But when he returned to Pierside he found a letter waiting him--so he told me--giving him command of a four thousand ton tramp steamer called The Firefly.

He is to sail at once--to-morrow, I believe." "Then what is he going to do about this murder business ?" "He can do nothing at present, as, if he remains in Pierside, he will lose his new command.

To-morrow he drops down stream, but meantime he intends to write out the whole story of the theft of the mummy.