The Strand Magazine, vol. 44, no. 264

Scientists

With a howl of terror the brave company turned and fled

The outer and the inner coffins, and within them the mummy of some departed majesty

His heart swelled within him, for here was the hand of that royal lady of his dreams

Smith looked at it once, twice, thrice, and at the third he fell in love

The funeral sledge drawn by oxen, and on it the great rectangular case that contained

'The Queen of the mask!' he gasped. 'The same—the same! By heavens, the very same!'

To be continued