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"I'll ask you to cut it as short as you can, Mr Jellicoe," said Badger "It has been a long yarn and ti on"
"For my part," said Thorndyke, "I find these details deeply interesting and instructive They fill in the outline that I had drawn by inference"
"Precisely," said Mr Jellicoe; "then I will proceed
"I left the deceased soaking in the spirit for a fortnight and then took him out, wiped him dry, and laid him on four cane-bottomed chairs just over the hot-water pipes I turned off the hot water in the other rooms so as to concentrate the heat in these pipes, and I let a free current of air pass through the rooly By the end of the third day the hands and feet had beco actually dropped off the shrunken finger--the nose looked like a fold of parchment; and the skin of the body was so dry and srossed a lease on it For the first day or two I turned the deceased at intervals so that he should dry evenly, and then I proceeded to get the case ready I divided the lacing and extracted the reat care as to the case, I mean; for the mummy suffered some injury in the extraction It was very badly embalmed, and so brittle that it broke in several places while I was getting it out; and when I unrolled it the head separated and both the arms came off
"On the sixth day after the rees that I had removed from Sebek-hotep and very carefully wrapped the deceased in theum benzoin freely on the body and between the folds of the wrappings to disguise the faint odour of the spirit and the fors had been applied, the deceased really had a most worklass case even without the cartonnage, and I felt alht for ever
"It was a difficult business getting him into the case without assistance, and I cracked the cartonnage badly in several places before he was safely enclosed But I got him in at last, and then, when I had closed up the case with a new lacing, I applied a fresh layer of bitumen which effectually covered up the cracks and the new cord A dusty cloth dabbed over the bitue with its tenant was ready for delivery I notified Doctor Norbury of the fact, and five days later he came and removed it to the Museum