Unexpectedly I saw in several European newspapers and in two English journals that a green Peruvian mummy was for sale at Malta for one thousand pounds.

I sent my assistant, Sidney Bolton, to buy it, and he managed to get it, coffin and all, for nine hundred.
While in Malta, and before he started back in The Diver with the mummy, he wrote me an account of the transaction.

The seller--who was the son of a Maltese collector--told Bolton that his father had picked up the mummy in Paris some twenty and more years ago.

It came from Lima some thirty years back, I believe, and, according to the collector in Paris, was the corpse of Inca Caxas.

That is the whole story." Don Pedro nodded gravely.
"Was there a Latin manuscript delivered along with the mummy ?" he asked.
Braddock's eyes opened widely.
"No, sir.