Jasher was
especially anxious to learn these things, and explained her
reasons to Lucy.
"You see, my dear," she said to the girl on the day after Don
Pedro's arrival in Gartley, "if we learn the past of that horrid
mummy, we may gain a clue to the person who desired possession of
the nasty thing, and so may hunt down this terrible criminal.
Once he is found, the mummy may be secured again, and should I be
able to return it to your father, out of gratitude he would
certainly marry me."
"You seem to think that the assassin is a man," said Lucy dryly;
"yet you forget that the person who talked to Sidney through the
window of the Sailor's Rest was a woman."
"An old woman," emphasized Mrs. Jasher briskly: "quite so."
Lucy contradicted.
"Eliza Flight did not say if the woman was old or young, but
merely stated that she wore a dark dress and a dark shawl over
her head. Still, this mysterious woman was connected in some way
with the murder, else she would not have been speaking to
Sidney."
"I don't follow you, my dear. You talk as though poor Mr. Bolton
expected to be murdered. For my part, I hold by the verdict of
wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. The truth
is to be found, if anywhere, in the past of the mummy.
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