of symbol or ornamentation of any kind.  At the first glance this would seem to imply that the drawings had been made after the sarcophagus had been put into its place.  But a more minute examination will show that the symbolisation on the floor is so arranged that a definite effect is produced.  See, here the writings run in correct order as though they had jumped across the gap.  It is only from certain effects that it becomes clear that there is a meaning of some kind.  What that meaning may be is what we want to know.  Look at the top and bottom of the vacant space, which lies West and East corresponding to the head and foot of the sarcophagus.  In both are duplications of the same symbolisation, but so arranged that the parts of each one of them are integral portions of some other writing running crosswise.  It is only when we get a coup d’oeil from either the head or the foot that you recognise that there are symbolisations.  See! they are in triplicate at the corners and the centre of both top and bottom.  In every case there is a sun cut in half by the line of the sarcophagus, as by the horizon.  Close behind each of these and faced away from it, as though in some way dependent on it, is the vase which in hieroglyphic writing symbolises the heart—­’Ab’ the Egyptians called it.  Beyond each of these again is the figure of a pair of widespread arms turned upwards from the elbow; this is the determinative of the ‘Ka’ or ‘Double’.  But its relative position is different at top and bottom.  At the head of the sarcophagus the top of the ‘Ka’ is turned towards the mouth of the vase, but at the foot the extended arms point away from it.

“The symbolisation seems to mean that during the passing of the Sun from West to East—­from sunset to sunrise, or through the Under World, otherwise night—­the Heart, which is material even in the tomb and cannot leave it, simply revolves, so that it can always rest on ‘Ra’ the Sun-God, the origin of all good; but that the Double, which represents the active principle, goes whither it will, the same by night as by day.  If this be correct it is a warning—­a caution—­a reminder that the consciousness of the mummy does not rest but is to be reckoned with.

“Or it may be intended to convey that after the particular night of the resurrection, the ‘Ka’ would leave the heart altogether, thus typifying that in her resurrection the Queen would be restored to a lower and purely physical existence.  In such case what would become of her memory and the experiences of her wide-wandering soul?  The chiefest value of her resurrection would be lost to the world!  This, however, does not alarm me.  It is only guess-work after all, and is contradictory to the intellectual belief of the Egyptian theology, that the ‘Ka’ is an essential portion of humanity.”  He paused and we all waited.  The silence was broken by Doctor Winchester: 

“But would not all this imply that the Queen feared intrusion of her tomb?” Mr. Trelawny smiled as he answered: