"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. But
he will not move a step without money."
"Five hundred pounds," murmured Random thoughtfully, while the
Professor watched him closely. "I can tell you how to obtain
it."
"How? In what way?"
"Don Pedro seems to be rich, and he wants the mummy," said the
baronet. "So when he comes here ask him to--"
"Certainly not: certainly not," raged Braddock, clapping on his
hat in a fury.
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