Bolton went to get the mummy and brought it home.

I understood that he would personally bring his precious charge to my house; but he didn't.

Why, I don't know." When the Professor stepped down, still fuming at what he considered were the unnecessary questions of the Coroner, the young doctor who had examined the corpse was called.

Robinson deposed that deceased had been strangled by means of a red window cord, and that, from the condition of the body, he would judge death had taken place some twelve hours more or less before the opening of the packing case by Braddock.

That was at three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, so in witness's opinion the crime was committed between two and three on the previous morning.
"But I can't be absolutely certain as to the precise hour," added witness; "at any rate poor Bolton was strangled after midnight and before three o'clock." "That is a wide margin," grumbled the Coroner, jealous of his brother-practitioner.