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"What did you do with the copy of the manuscript?" asked Don Pedro

Hervey ruminated

"I can't think," hewith the

mummy, when I looted it from your Lima house, but it dropped out ofto the Paris ent"

"But I tell you this copy was found in Sir Frank's rooos "How did it come to be there?"

Captain Hervey rose and took a turn up and down the room When Cockatoo

came in his way he calmly kicked hi to a full stop before

Archie, while Cockatoo crept aith a very dark scowl

"I don't knohat to think," replied that young gentleood friend, and that I take his word

that he knows nothing of how the manuscript came to be hidden in his

bookcase"

"Huh!" said Hervey scornfully, and took another turn up and down the

room in silence "I surmise that your friend isn't a white man"

Hope leaped to his feet

"That's a lie," he said distinctly

"I'd have shot you for that down Chili way," snapped the skipper

"Possibly," retorted the artist dryly, "but I happen to be handy with ain that you lie Random is not the man to coet into his roo to learn, and, when he does, will come here to let us all