[The Mummy and Miss Nitocris by George Griffith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mummy and Miss Nitocris CHAPTER XI 6/28
What do you think, Marmion? I hope you won't mind the exposure taking place in your own garden and among your own guests ?" "Not a bit, my dear Hartley," replied Franklin Marmion with a smile, which was quite lost upon his absolutely materialistic friends.
"We have, as Van Huysman says, received a direct challenge.
We should be most unworthy servants of our great Mistress if we did not take it up. Personally, I mean to find out everything that I can." "And, gentlemen," laughed the Prince, who had been standing with them and now moved away towards Nitocris, "I sincerely hope that what you find out will be worth the learning." "He's a big man, that," said Professor van Huysman, when he was out of earshot, "but he's not the sort I'd have much use for.
I wonder why those people who are on the war-path in his country ever let him out of it alive ?" In accordance with Phadrig's request, they made a triangle of which he was the central point.
Without any formula of introduction, he said rather abruptly: "Professor van Huysman, will you oblige me by taking a croquet ball and holding it in your hand as tightly as you can ?" Brenda ran out of the circle and gave him one.
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