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The Green Mummy

CHAPTER XXII
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Sidney, she declares, borrowed the clothes to give to me for a model.

Now, I never asked Bolton to do this, so I fancy the disguise must have been intended for himself, or for Mrs.Jasher." "But what had Mrs.Jasher to do with him ?" demanded Random sharply.
"Well, it's odd," replied Hope slowly, "but Mrs.Bolton declares that her son was in love with Mrs.Jasher, and when he returned from Malta intended to marry her." "Impossible!" cried Sir Frank.

"She engaged herself to Braddock." "But only after Bolton's death, remember." Don Pedro nodded.
"That is true.

But what you say, Mr.Hope, proves the truth of Hervey's theory." "In what way ?" "Mrs.Jasher, as we know from what Random told us, wanted money.

She would not marry a man who was poor.


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