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This will bring Gartley once more into notoriety," went on Hope. "By the way, I saw one of the servants from the Pyramids here. I hope the fool won't go home and frighten Lucy's life out of her." "Go to the Pyramids and see her," suggested Sir Frank. "Mrs. Jasher is still unconscious, and will be for hours, the doctor tells me." "It is too late to go to the Pyramids, Random."
But I say," he glanced at his watch; "it is getting towards nine o'clock, and I am desperately hungry. Can't we go to dinner?" "Not until Mrs. Jasher arrives," said Lucy primly. "Oh, bother !"
This was due to the fact that the mail had come in and the three letters brought by the postman had to do with creditors. Mrs. Jasher was always trying to make both ends meet, and had a hard struggle to keep her head above water. Certainly, since she had inherited the money of her brother, the Pekin merchant, she need not have looked so worried.
The Syndic sat heavily in his seat, and, with a hand on either arm of the abbot's chair, stared dully at the other. "A fortune, you told me," he said, in a voice little above a whisper. "And years. Was it a fiction, all a fiction? About Ibn Jasher, and the Physician of Aleppo, and M. Laurens of Paris, and and the rest?"
He refused to fix a date. But he usually remains away for a fortnight. I expect him back in that time, but he may come much earlier. He will come back when the fancy takes him." "I shall alter all that, when we are married," muttered Mrs. Jasher with a frown. "He must be taught to be less selfish."
By killing Bolton, the Kanaka hoped to save the emeralds for Braddock: in stabbing Mrs. Jasher, he hoped to save the Professor's life." "Oh, Archie, will they hang my father?" Hope winced. "Call him your step-father," he said quickly. "No, dear, I do not think he will be hanged; but as an accessory after the fact he will certainly be condemned to a long term of imprisonment.
"We had better see after Mrs. Jasher." "Whom have you got there?" "Jane who seems to have lost her head." "It's a mercy I haven't lost my life, sir, with burglars and murderers all about the place," sobbed the girl, dropping on to the veranda. Random promptly hauled her to her feet. "Go and get a candle, and keep calm if you can," he said in an abrupt military voice.
The Professor raised his eyes from a newly bought scarabeus to behold a stout little lady smiling on him from the doorway. He did not appear to be grateful for the interruption, but Mrs. Jasher was not at all dismayed, being a man-hunter by profession. Besides, she saw that Braddock was in the clouds as usual, and would have received the King himself in the same absent-minded manner.
"I scarcely see how any one entering or leaving the garden could fail to see it, especially as the snow reflects the moonlight so brightly." Mrs. Jasher shivered, and taking the skirt of her tea-gown, flung it over her carefully attired head, "It is very cold," she remarked irritably. "Don't you think we had better return to the house, and talk there?"
Jasher has not behaved well, but I should like to hear her complete story before judging. There must be a lot of good in her, or Lucy, who has been with her a great deal, would have found her out long ago. I go by a woman's judgment of a woman. But Mrs. Jasher must have been anxious to marry." "She was; as Professor Braddock knows," said Random quickly.
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