Then he arranged that Mrs. Jasher should join him in Paris, and
they would sell the emeralds, and go to America, there to marry
and live happily ever afterwards, like a fairy tale.
Unfortunately for the success of this plan, Mrs. Jasher thought
that the Professor would make a more distinguished husband, so
she betrayed all that Sidney, had arranged.
"What a beastly thing to do!" interrupted Random, disgusted. "It
is not as if she wanted to help Braddock. I think less of Mrs.
Jasher than ever I did. She might have remembered that there is
honor amongst thieves."
"Well, she is dead, poor soul!" said Hope with a sigh. "God
knows that if she sinned, she has paid cruelly for her sin,"
after which remark, as Sir Frank was silent, he resumed his
reading.
Braddock was furious when he learned of his assistant's projected
trickery, and he determined to circumvent him. He agreed to
marry Mrs. Jasher, as, if he had not done so, she could have
warned Sidney and he could have escaped with both the mummy and
the jewels by conniving with Hervey. The Professor could not
risk that, as, remembering Hervey as Gustav Vasa, he was aware
how clever and reckless he was. Whether Braddock ever intended
to marry the widow in the end it is hard to say, but he certainly
pretended to consent to the engagement, which was mainly brought
about by Lucy.
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