The Green Mummy
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Hume Fergus. The Green Mummy
CHAPTER I. THE LOVERS
CHAPTER II. PROFESSOR BRADDOCK
CHAPTER III. A MYSTERIOUS TOMB
CHAPTER IV. THE UNEXPECTED
CHAPTER V. MYSTERY
CHAPTER VI. THE INQUEST
CHAPTER VII. THE CAPTAIN OF THE DIVER
CHAPTER VIII. THE BARONET
CHAPTER IX. MRS. JASHER’S LUCK’
CHAPTER X. THE DON AND HIS DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XI. THE MANUSCRIPT
CHAPTER XII. A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIII. MORE MYSTERY
CHAPTER XIV. THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS
CHAPTER XV. AN ACCUSATION
CHAPTER XVI. THE MANUSCRIPT AGAIN
CHAPTER XVII. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XVIII. RECOGNITION
CHAPTER XIX. NEARER THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XX. THE LETTER
CHAPTER XXI. A STORY OF THE PAST
CHAPTER XXII. A WEDDING PRESENT
CHAPTER XXIII. JUST IN TIME
CHAPTER XXIV. A CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXV. THE MILLS OF GOD
CHAPTER XXVI. THE APPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XXVII. BY THE RIVER
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There was only one really palatial mansion in Gartley, and that was the ancient Georgian house known as the Pyramids. Lucy’s step-father had given the place this eccentric name on taking up his abode there some ten years previously. Before that time the dwelling had been occupied by the Lord of the Manor and his family. But now the old squire was dead, and his impecunious children were scattered to the four quarters of the globe in search of money with which to rebuild their ruined fortunes. As the village was somewhat isolated and rather unhealthily situated in a marshy country, the huge, roomy old Grange had not been easy to let, and had proved quite impossible to sell. Under these disastrous circumstances, Professor Braddock – who described himself humorously as a scientific pauper – had obtained the tenancy at a ridiculously low rental, much to his satisfaction.
Many people would have paid money to avoid exile in these damp waste lands, which, as it were, fringed civilization, but their loneliness and desolation suited the Professor exactly. He required ample room for his Egyptian collection, with plenty of time to decipher hieroglyphics and study perished dynasties of the Nile Valley. The world of the present day did not interest Braddock in the least. He lived almost continuously on that portion of the mental plane which had to do with the far-distant past, and only concerned himself with physical existence, when it consisted of mummies and mystic beetles, sepulchral ornaments, pictured documents, hawk-headed deities and suchlike things of almost inconceivable antiquity. He rarely walked abroad and was invariably late for meals, save when he missed any particular one altogether, which happened frequently. Absent-minded in conversation, untidy in dress, unpractical in business, dreamy in manner, Professor Braddock lived solely for archaeology. That such a man should have taken to himself a wife was mystery.
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“How are you, Mrs. Jasher?” said Lucy, advancing.
“Here am I and here is Archie. Dinner is ready. And you – ”
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