I have promised to give him fifty pounds for doing so, as I want to get back the mummy, free of charge, from Braddock." "I think Braddock will stick to the mummy in any event," said Random grimly.
"Not when Hervey writes out his evidence.

He will not have it completed by the time he sails, as he is very busy.

But he has promised to send off a boat to the jetty near the Fort to-morrow evening, when he is dropping down stream.

I shall be there with fifty pounds in gold." "Supposing he fails to stop or send the boat ?" "Then he will not get his fifty pounds," retorted Don Pedro.

"The man is a rascal, and deserves prison rather than reward, but since the mummy was stolen by him thirty years back, he alone can prove my ownership." "But why take all this trouble ?" argued the baronet.