"Oh, it has arrived then."

"Not here exactly. My father expects it at three o'clock."

"It is now a quarter to," said Archie, consulting his watch. "As
I have been to London all yesterday I did not know that The Diver
had arrived at Pierside, How is Bolton?"

Lucy wrinkled her brows. "I am rather worried over Sidney," she
said in an anxious voice, "and so is my father. He had not
appeared."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well," she looked at the ground in a pondering manner, "my
father got a letter from Sidney yesterday afternoon, saying that
the ship with the mummy and himself on board had arrived about
four o'clock. The letter was sent on by special messenger and
came at six."

"Then it arrived in the evening and not in the afternoon?"

"How particular you are!" said Miss Kendal, with a shrug. "Well,
then, Sidney said that he could not bring the mummy to this place
last night as it was so late. He intended--so he told my father
in the letter--to remove the case containing the mummy ashore to
an inn near the wharf at Pierside, and there would remain the
night so as to take care of it."