"What the devil have you been doing with yourself then? You've had time to collar it a dozen times."
"I have been talking to the butler."
"What the devil do you waste time talking to butlers for? I suppose you haven't even located the museum yet?"
"Yes; I've done that."
"Oh, you have, have you? Well, that's something. And how do you propose setting about the job?"
"The best plan would be to go there very late at night."
"Well, you didn't propose to stroll in in the afternoon, did you?
How are you going to find the scarab when you do get in?"
Ashe had not thought of that. The deeper he went into this business the more things did there seem to be in it of which he had not thought.
"I don't know," he confessed.
"You don't know! Tell me, young man, are you considered pretty bright, as Englishmen go?"