The Green Mummy - Page 184/191

However, as the day wore on to night, nothing was heard of Braddock or

Cockatoo or the mummy, and when night came the village was filled

with local reporters and with London journalists asking questions.

The Warrior Inn did a great trade in drink and beds and meals, and the

rustics reaped quite a harvest in answering questions about Mrs. Jasher

and the Professor and the weird-looking Kanaka. Some reporters dared

to invade the Pyramids, where Lucy was weeping in sorrow and shame, but

Archie, reinforced by two policemen, sent to his aid by Date, soon sent

them to the right about. Hope would have liked to remain with Lucy all

the evening, but at half-past seven he was forced to meet Don Pedro and

Random outside the Fort in order to go to Gartley Jetty.