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Title: The Green Mummy

Author: Fergus Hume

Posting Date: December 14, 2008 [EBook #2868]
Release Date: October, 2001

Language: English

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THE GREEN MUMMY

By Fergus Hume

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I THE LOVERS

II PROFESSOR BRADDOCK

III A MYSTERIOUS TOMB

IV THE UNEXPECTED

V MYSTERY

VI THE INQUEST

VII THE CAPTAIN OF "THE DIVER"

VIII THE BARONET

IX MRS. JASHER'S LUCK

X THE DON AND HIS DAUGHTER

XI THE MANUSCRIPT

XII A DISCOVERY

XIII MORE MYSTERY

XIV THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS

XV AN ACCUSATION

XVI THE MANUSCRIPT AGAIN

XVII CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

XVIII RECOGNITION

XIX NEARER THE TRUTH

XX THE LETTER

XXI A STORY OF THE PAST

XXII A WEDDING PRESENT

XXIII JUST IN TIME

XXIV A CONFESSION

XXV THE MILLS OF GOD

XXVI THE APPOINTMENT

XXVII BY THE RIVER

THE GREEN MUMMY

CHAPTER I. THE LOVERS

"I am very angry," pouted the maid.

"In heaven's name, why?" questioned the bachelor.

"You have, so to speak, bought me."

"Impossible: your price is prohibitive."

"Indeed, when a thousand pounds--"

"You are worth fifty and a hundred times as much. Pooh!"

"That interjection doesn't answer my question."

"I don't think it is one which needs answering," said the young man
lightly; "there are more important things to talk about than pounds,
shillings, and sordid pence."

"Oh, indeed! Such as--"

"Love, on a day such as this is. Look at the sky, blue as your eyes; at
the sunshine, golden as your hair."

"Warm as your affection, you should say."

"Affection! So cold a word, when I love you."

"To the extent of one thousand pounds."

"Lucy, you are a--woman. That money did not buy your love, but the
consent of your step-father to our marriage. Had I not humored his whim,
he would have insisted upon your marrying Random."

Lucy p