Owing to circumstances I have been obliged to borrow the money from you; otherwise the mummy would have been acquired by some one else.

But when I find the tomb of Queen Tahoser, I shall repay the loan." "You have repaid it already," said Hope, looking at Lucy.
Braddock's eyes followed his gaze and his brows contracted.

"Humph!" he muttered, "I don't know if I am right in consenting to Lucy's marriage with a pauper." "Oh, father!" cried the girl, "Archie is not a pauper." "I have enough for Lucy and me to live on," said Hope, although his face had flushed, "and, had I been a pauper I could not have given you that thousand pounds." "You will be repaid--you will be repaid," said Braddock, waving his hand to dismiss the subject.

"And now," he rose with a yawn, "if this tedious feast is at an end, I shall again seek my work." Without a word of apology to the disgusted Mrs.Jasher, he trotted to the door, and there paused.
"By the way, Lucy," he said, turning, "I had a letter to-day from Random.

He returns in his yacht to Pierside in two or three days.