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"Yes, that is so The people who fought against Caypt five thousand years before--the dynastic people whose portraits we see on the early monuments In those fifty centuries the blood of Hyksos and Syrians and Ethiopians and Hittites, and who can say how yptians But still the national life went on without a break; the old culture leavened the new peoples, and the iyptians It is a wonderful pheno back on it froical period than the life-history of a single nation Are you at all interested in the subject?"

"Yes, decidedly, though I anorant of it The fact is that rowth It is only of late that I have been sensible of the glahaested Mr Jellicoe, hiy

I suppose I must have reddened--I certainly resented the reestion because I know that she takes an intelligent interest in the subject and is, in fact, quite well inforreat deal about the antiquities of Egypt, and I may as well admit that your surmise was correct It was she who showed me her uncle's collection"

"So I had supposed," said Mr Jellicoe "And a very instructive collection it is, in a popular sense; very suitable for exhibition in a publicin it of unusual interest to the expert The toe case of the muht it quite handso all that trouble to decorate it, they should have disfigured it with those great smears of bitu question It is not unusual to find mummy-cases smeared with bituallery which is coilded face Now, this bitu the inscriptions and thus concealing the identity of the deceased from the robbers and desecrators of tombs And there is the oddity of this mummy of Sebek-hotep Evidently there was an intention of obliterating the inscriptions The whole of the back is covered thickly with bitued their minds and left the inscriptions and decoration untouched Why they intended to cover it, and why, having commenced, they left it partially covered only, is a inal tomb and quite undisturbed, so far as toreatly puzzled as to what the explanation could be"