The Green Mummy - Page 155/191

Sir Frank slipped the package into his pocket and went away after a grim

word or so to the sentry, advising him to be more on the alert. He was

puzzled to think who had left the packet in the sentry box, and curious

to know what it contained. As soon as he got to his own room, he cut

the string which bound loosely the brown paper. Then, in the lamplight,

there rolled out from the carelessly-tied parcel a glorious sea-green

emerald of great size, radiating light like a sun. A scrap of white

paper lay in the brown wrapping. On it was written, "A wedding gift for

Sir Frank Random."