But girls are so obstinate, and Lucy is a thorough
girl."
His amiable anxiety on behalf of Miss Kendal was only cut short
by the entrance of the young lady herself. Professor Braddock
then showed his hand too plainly by evincing a strong wish to
conciliate her in every way. He procured her a seat: he asked
after her health: he told her that she was growing prettier every
day, and in all ways behaved so unlike his usual self, that Lucy
became alarmed and thought that he had been
"Why have you sent for me?" she asked, anxious to come to the
point.
"Aha!" Braddock put his venerable head on one side like a roguish
bird and smiled in an infantine manner. "I have good news for
you."
"About the mummy?" she demanded innocently.
"No, about flesh and blood, which you prefer. Sir Frank Random
has arrived back at the Fort. There!"
"I know that," was Miss Kendal's unexpected reply. "His yacht
came to Pierside on the same afternoon as The Diver arrived."
"Oh, indeed!" said the Professor, struck by the coincidence, and
with a stare. "How do you know?"
"Archie met Sir Frank the other day, and learned as much."
"What?" Braddock struck a tragic attitude. "Do you mean to say
that those two young men speak to one another?"
"Yes.
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