Cockatoo then returned by boat to the Gartley jetty and
told his master. Afterwards, the Professor, at a much later
hour, went down to the jetty and was rowed up to Pierside by the
Kanaka."
"That was when Mrs. Jasher saw them," said Random, much
interested.
"Yes," said Archie. "And then, if you remember; she watched for
the return of the couple."
"It was nearly midnight when the boat was brought alongside the
sloping stone bank of the alley which ran past the Sailor's Rest.
No one was about at that hour, not even a policeman, and there
was no light in Sidney Bolton's window. Braddock was much
agitated as he thought that Sidney had already escaped. He
waited in the boat and sent Cockatoo to knock at the window.
Then a light appeared and the window was silently opened. The
Kanaka slipped in and remained there for some ten minutes after
closing the window. When he returned, the light was
extinguished. He whispered to his master that Sidney had opened
the packing case and the mummy coffin, and had ripped the
swathings to get the jewels. When Sidney would not hand over the
jewels to the Kanaka, as the latter wanted him to, Cockatoo,
already prepared with the window cord, which he had silently
taken from the blind, sprang upon the unfortunate assistant and
strangled him.
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