And this five hundred pounds--" "I cannot lend it to you, Professor.

The fact is, I lost heaps of coin at Monte Carlo, and am not in a position to--" "Very good, let us shelve that also," said Braddock with apparent heartiness, although he was really very angry at his failure.

"I am sorry, though, as I wish to get back the mummy and to revenge poor Sidney Bolton's death." "How can the five hundred do that ?" asked Random with interest.
"Well," drawled the Professor with his eyes on the young man's attentive face, "Captain Hervey of The Diver came to me yesterday and proposed to search for the assassin and his plunder on condition that I paid him five hundred pounds.

I am, as you know, very poor for a scientist, and so I wished to borrow the five hundred from you on condition that Lucy--" "We won't talk of that again," said Random hurriedly; "but do you mean to say that this Captain Hervey knows of anything likely to solve this mystery ?" "He says that he does not, and merely proposes to search.

From what I have seen of the man I should think that he had all the capacities of a good bloodhound and would certainly succeed.