You can both see for yourselves," he waved his hand towards the rifled case, "that poor Sidney must have been killed for the sake of the emeralds.

The question is, who killed him ?" "The person who knew about the jewels," said Don Pedro promptly.
"Of course: but who did know?
I was ignorant until you told me about the manuscript.

And you, Hope ?" He searched Archie's face.
"Do you intend to accuse me ?" questioned the young man with a slight laugh.

"I assure you, Professor, that I was ignorant of what had been buried with the corpse, until Don Pedro related his story the other night to myself and Random, and the ladies." Braddock turned impatiently to De Gayangos, as he did not approve of Archie's apparent flippancy.
"Does any one else know of the contents of this manuscript ?" he demanded irritably.
Don Pedro nursed his chin and looked musingly on the ground.
"It is just possible that Vasa may." "Vasa?
Vasa?
Oh yes, the sailor who stole the mummy thirty years ago from your father in Lima.

Pooh! pooh! pooh! You tell me that this manuscript is written in Latin, and evidently in monkish Latin at that, which is of the worst.