"What do you think, Archie?
Isn't it strange ?" Hope nodded.

"But I daresay Bolton will explain his absence," said he, following her.

"He will arrive in time to open the mummy case along with the Professor." "I hope so," said Miss Kendal, who looked much perplexed.

"I can't understand Sidney abandoning the case, when it might so easily have been stolen.

Come in and see my father, Archie," and she passed into the house, followed by the young man, whose curiosity was now aroused.