They found the door of the great house open and the servants in the hall.
"What is all this ?" demanded Hope, entering.

"Why are you here, and not at work?
Where is your master ?" "He's run away," said the cook in a shrill voice.

"Lord knows why, sir." "Archie! Archie!" Lucy came running out of the museum, pale-faced and white, "my father has gone away with Cockatoo and the green mummy.

What does it mean?
And just when poor Mrs.Jasher is murdered too." "Hush, darling! Come in, and I'll explain," said Hope gently..