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"And what is the significance of this? Why do you connect the remains with one locality rather than the various other localities in which other portions of the body have been found?"

"Well," I replied, rather gravelled by this very pertinent question, "the appearances seeest that the person who deposited these rehbourhood of Eltha man was last seen"

Mr Jellicoe shook his head "You appear," said he, "to be confusing the order of deposition with the order of discovery What evidence is there that the remains found at Sidcup were deposited before those found elsewhere?"

"I don't know that there is any," I admitted

"Then," said he, "I don't see how you support your suggestion that the person started frohbourhood of Eltha to offer in support ofthus shot ht it tie the subject

"I called in at the British Museuhas are very well shown in that central case"

"Yes I was very pleased with the position they have given to the exhibit, and so would my poor old friend have been I wished, as I looked at the case, that he could have seen it But perhaps he may, after all"

"I am sure I hope he will," said I, with ave ham would most effectually have cut the Gordian knot of ood deal interested in Egyptology yourself, aren't you?" I added

"Greatly interested," replied Mr Jellicoe, with ht possible in his wooden face "It is a fascinating subject, the study of this venerable civilisation, extending back to the childhood of the human race, preserved for ever for our instruction in its own unchangingconnected with Egypt is full of an i of pere, pervades it The place, the people, and the htily surprised at this rhetorical outburst on the part of this dry and taciturn lawyer But I liked him the better for the touch of enthusiasm that made him human, and determined to keep him astride of his hobby

"Yet," said I, "the people ed in the course of centuries"