8/20 "Cook came up this morning to my room, and said that my father--I mean my step-father--had gone away with Cockatoo and with the green mummy. I don't know why she should have said that, as the Professor often went away unexpectedly." "Perhaps she heard rumors in the village and put two and two together. Some instinct must have told her. But I daresay Braddock and his accomplice fled under cover of the mist and in the small hours of the morning. They must have known that the confession would bring the officers of the law to this house." "I hope they will escape," murmured Lucy. |