See here, the place is dead.

I don't believe it ever heard of Professor Thunder and his world-famous Missing Link; I don't think it has discovered that anything unusual has happened along.

You must escape from your cage to-night, and scare the life half out of some of these miserable mummies, then I'll come along and recapture you.

That should excite some curiosity, and perhaps bring in money to-morrow'." Nickie yawned lazily.

"Oh, all right," he said, getting back to his straw; "but mind there are no guns.