Therefore there was nothing left to Braddock but to fly.

Although," added Hope, with an afterthought, "I can't imagine why those two fugitives should drag that confounded mummy with them." "But why should the Professor fly ?" asked Lucy again.

"According to what Mrs.Jasher writes, he did not strangle poor Sidney." "No.

And I will do him the justice to say that he had no idea of having his assistant murdered.

It was Cockatoo's savage blood which came out in the deed, and maybe it can be explained by the Kanaka's devotion to the Professor.