The Green Mummy
“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.”
Fergus Hume
THE GREEN MUMMY
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