Wait, sir, until I glance through this document." "One moment," said Don Pedro, as the Professor began to literally devour the discolored page.

"You know from Hope, I have no doubt, how I chance upon my own property in Europe ?" Braddock, still with his eyes on the manuscript, mumbled "Your own property.

Quite so: quite so." "You admit that.

Then you will no doubt restore the mummy to me." By this time the drift of Don Pedro's observations entirely reached the understanding of the scientist, and he dropped the document he was reading to leap to his feet.
"Restore the mummy to you!" he gasped.

"Why, it is mine." "Pardon me," said the Peruvian, still gravely but very decisively, "you admitted that it belonged to me." Braddock's face deepened to a fine purple.
"I didn't know what I was saying," he protested.