1st US edition

There were the thick lips, the fat cheeks, and the squat nose standing out with startling clearness.

Holly explores the silver casket.

'Why did you keep me standing there in the cold?' he asked.

'Oh, my lord,' I heard her whisper, 'so I have found thee.'

Facsimilie of the sherd of Amenartas one 1/2 size. Facsimilie of the reverse of the sherd of Amenartas, one 1/2 size.

A beam from the setting sun pierced the stygian gloom, and smote upon the point of rock whereon we lay.

As we were returning, Billali met us.

I sprang to my feet with a yell of horror, and, drawing my revolver, fired it.

The next instant I felt Leo seize me by the right wrist with both hands.

I took this cold fragment of mortality in my hands and looked at it.

One and all of us, save She, who stood up and stretched her hands towards the fire, sank down before it, and hid our faces in the sand.

When the lamps were held up I saw that it was nothing but one vast charnel-house.

The curtain was drawn, and a tall figure stood before us.

Next second her tall and willowy form was staggering back across the room, as though she had been shot or stabbed.