To be sure," added Mrs.Jasher meditatively, "we did not look particularly in the direction of this arbor." "I scarcely see how any one entering or leaving the garden could fail to see it, especially as the snow reflects the moonlight so brightly." Mrs.Jasher shivered, and taking the skirt of her tea-gown, flung it over her carefully attired head, "It is very cold," she remarked irritably.

"Don't you think we had better return to the house, and talk there ?" "What!" said Archie grimly, "and leave the mummy to be carried away as mysteriously as it has been brought.

No, Mrs.Jasher.That mummy represents one thousand pounds of my money." "I understood that the Professor bought it himself." "So he did, but I supplied the purchase money.

Therefore I do not intend that this should be lost sight of again.

Lucy, my dear, you run home again and tell your father what we have found.