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The Green Mummy

CHAPTER XV
19/19

"I'll go to that old inn of yours, where you say the Don's stopping, and look him up.

Guess I'll trade." "But who killed Bolton ?" asked Braddock, running to the door and gripping Hervey by his coat.
The mariner looked down on the anxious face of the plump little man with a grim smile.
"I can tell you," said he, "as you can't figure out the business, unless I'm on the racket.

No, sir; I'm the white boy in thin circus." The Professor shook the lean sailor in his anxiety.
"Who is he ?" "That almighty aristocrat that came on board my ship, when I lay in the Thames on the very afternoon I arrived with Bolton." "Who do you mean ?" demanded Braddock, more and more perplexed.
"Sir Frank Random." "What! did he kill Bolton and steal my mummy ?" "And hide it in that garden on his way to the Fort?
I guess he did." The Professor sat down and closed his eyes with horror.

When he opened them again, Hervey was gone..


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