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Had there
been anything more than superstition in the girl's evident fright?
She had seen something, I felt sure, for it was certain she was
very much disturbed. But what was it she had really seen? So far
all that Kennedy had found had proved that the reincarnation of
the priestess Ka had been very material. Perhaps the
"reincarnation" had got in in the daytime and had spent the hours
until night in the mummy-case. It might well have been chosen as
the safest and least suspicious hiding-place.
Kennedy evidently had some ideas and plans, for no sooner had he
completed arrangements with Dr. Lith so that we could get into the
museum that night to watch, than he excused himself. Scarcely
around the corner on the next business street he hurried into a
telephone booth.
"I called up First Deputy O'Connor," he explained as he left the
booth a quarter of an hour later. "You know it is the duty of two
of O'Connor's men to visit all the pawn-shops of the city at least
once a week, looking over recent pledges and comparing them with
descriptions of stolen articles.


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