"You see that the emeralds are missing." "Your assistant's assassin stole them," insisted Don Pedro coldly.
"We cannot be sure of that," retorted the Professor, "although I admit that no man would jeopardize his neck for the sake of a corpse." Archie looked surprised.
"But an enthusiast such as you are, Professor, might risk so much." For once in his life Braddock made a good-humored reply.
"No, sir.

Not even for this mummy would I place myself in the power of the law.

And I do not think that any other scientist would either.

We savants may not be worldly, but we are not fools.

However, the fact remains that the jewels are gone, and whether they were stolen by Vasa thirty years ago, or by poor Sidney's assassin the other day, I don't know, and, what is more, I don't care.