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I should have thought that a simpler object, such as a coffin or a wooden figure, would have been more instructive." "In some ways it would," replied Thorndyke, "but the variety of materials that the mummy gives us has its advantages. I hope your father is not ill, Miss Bellingham." "He is not at all well," said Ruth, "and we agreed that it was better for me to come alone.
Bellingham; and he added, after a moment's thought: "Now, the question is, Are these bones the remains of my brother John? What do you say, Doctor Thorndyke?" "I say that the question cannot be answered on the facts at present known to us. It can only be said that they may be, and that some of the circumstances suggest that they are. But we can only wait for further discoveries.
I learned from him that John Bellingham had certain friends in Paris collectors and museum officials whom he was in the habit of visiting for the purpose of study and exchange of specimens. I have made inquiries of all these, and none of them had seen him during his last visit. In fact, I have not yet discovered anyone who had seen Bellingham in Paris on this occasion.
"Simplicity is the soul of efficiency, sir," replied Polton as he checked the tea-service to make sure that nothing was forgotten, and with this remarkable aphorism he silently evaporated. "To return to the Bellingham case," said Thorndyke, when he had poured out the tea.
Sir Henry Vane was beheaded in London, at the beginning of the reign of Charles the Second. And Haynes, Dudley, Bellingham and Leverett, who had all been governors of Massachusetts, were now likewise in their graves. Old Simon Bradstreet was the sole representative of that departed brotherhood.
For the return of John Bellingham would most effectually have cut the Gordian knot of my friend Godfrey's difficulties. "You are a good deal interested in Egyptology yourself, aren't you?" I added. "Greatly interested," replied Mr. Jellicoe, with more animation than I had thought possible in his wooden face.
Hurst, perhaps you had better put the question to him. He will probably know." Mr. Loram bowed, and as the Judge subsided into his normal state of coma he turned to the triumphant witness. "Do you remember anything remarkable occurring on the twenty-third of November the year before last?" "Yes. Mr. John Bellingham called at our house." "How did you know he was Mr. John Bellingham?"
St. Leger was recalled, and replaced by Sir Edward Bellingham, a stern and rigorous soldier, who ruled autocratically with a strong hand.
Bellingham was staying to dinner. "'Mr. Bellingham! says he. 'I didn't know he was here. Why didn't you tell me? he says. 'I thought he was with you, sir, I said. 'I showed him into the study, I said. 'Well, he wasn't there when I came in, he said, 'and he isn't there now, he said. 'Perhaps he has gone to wait in the drawing-room, he said.
They clambered the little hill, not yet fully shaded by the overarching elms; and then Ruth checked Mr Bellingham, by a slight motion of the hand which lay within his arm, and glanced up into his face to see what that face should express as it looked on Milham Grange, now lying still and peaceful in its afternoon shadows.
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