But Bolton-- ?" "Oh!" Robinson looked interested.

"Has he returned with your mummy ?" "Mummy," bellowed Braddock, stamping like an insane Cupid--"the mummy hasn't arrived." "Really, Professor, you surprise me," said the doctor mildly.
"I'll surprise you more," growled Braddock, dragging Robinson into the garden and up the steps.
"Gently! gently! my dear sir," said the doctor, who really began to think that much learning had made the Professor mad.

"Didn't Bolton-- ?" "Bolton is dead, you fool." "Dead!" The doctor nearly tumbled backward down the steps.
"Murdered.

At least I think he is murdered.

At all events he arrived here to-day in the packing case, which should have contained my green mummy.