"So the precious mummy has arrived, father," said Lucy, who saw
that the Professor was furious. "Are you not pleased?"
"Pleased! pleased!" shouted the angry man of science. "How can
I be pleased when I see how badly the case has been treated? See
how it has been bruised and battered and shaken! I'll have an
action against Captain Hervey of The Diver if my mummy has been
injured. Sidney should have taken better care of so precious an
object."
"What does he say?" asked Archie, glancing round the museum to
see if the delinquent had arrived.
"Say!" shouted Braddock again, and snatching a chisel from
Cockatoo. "Oh, what can he say when he is not here?"
"Not here?" said Lucy, more and more surprised at the
unaccountable absence of Braddock's assistant. "Where is he,
then?"
"I don't know. I wish I did; I'd have him arrested for
neglecting to watch over this case. As it is, when he comes back
I'll dismiss him from my employment. He can go back to his
infernal laundry work along with his old witch of a mother."
"But why hasn't Bolton come back, sir?" asked Hope sharply.
Braddock struck a furious blow at the head of the chisel which he
had inserted into the case.
"I want to know that.
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