When this was completed, they were about to carry the mummy in its coffin--the lid of which they had replaced--to the boat, when they heard distant footsteps, probably those of a policeman on his beat.
At once they extinguished the candle, and--as Braddock told Mrs.
Jasher--he, for one, sat trembling in the dark.

But the policeman--if the footsteps were those of a policeman--passed up another street, and the two were safe.

Without relighting the candle, they silently slipped the mummy through the window, Cockatoo within and Braddock without.

The case and its contents were not heavy, and it was not difficult for the two men to take it to the boat.

When it was safely bestowed, Cockatoo--who was as cunning as the devil, according to his master returned to the bedroom, and unlocked the door.