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It was certainly strange how constantly the subject of the missing mummy came uppermost.

Since it had disappeared and since the man who had brought it to England was dead, it might have been thought that nothing more would be said about the matter.

But Professor Braddock harped incessantly on his loss--which was perhaps natural--and Widow Anne also talked a great deal as to the possibility of the mummy, being found, as she hoped to learn by that means the name of the assassin who had strangled her poor boy.

Now Don Pedro de Gayangos appeared with the strange information that the weird relic of Peruvian civilization had been stolen from his father.