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"The mask on the case is a portrait, I suppose?"

"Yes; in fact, it is rather more To some extent it is the actual face of the man hie, that is a case e, was forlue or cement, and when the case had been fitted to the eneral form of the features and limbs was often apparent After the cement was dry the case was covered with a thin layer of stucco and the face modelled more completely, and then the decorations and inscriptions were painted on So that, you see, in a cartonnage, the body was sealed up like a nut in its shell, unlike the more ancient forms in which the mummy was merely rolled up and enclosed in a wooden coffin"

At thisvoice announcing in sing-song tones that it was closing tiested the hospitable nored the official who shepherded us along the galleries, we made our way to the entrance, still immersed in conversation on matters sepulchral

It was rather earlier than our usual hour for leaving the Museum and, moreover, it was our last day--for the present Wherefore we lingered over our tea to an extent that caused the milk-shop lady to vieith soth we started homeward, we took so many short cuts that six o'clock found us no nearer our destination than Lincoln's Inn Fields; whither we had journeyed by a slightly indirect route that traversed (a other places) Russell Square, Red Lion Square, with the quaint passage of the same name, Bedford Row, Jockey's Fields, Hand Court, and Great Turnstile

It was in the latter thoroughfare that our attention was attracted by a fla inscription: "MORE MEMENTOES OF MURDERED MAN"

Miss Bellinghalanced at the poster and shuddered

"Horrible! Isn't it?" she said "Have you read about the the papers the last few, days," I replied

"No, of course you haven't You've been slaving at those wretched notes We don't very often see the papers, at least we don't take the the last day or two She is a perfect little ghoul; she delights in horrors of every kind, and the more horrible the better"

"But," I asked, "what is it that they have found?"