The light falling through this skylight passed through plate glass
of marvellous transparency. One looked up at the sky as if through
the air itself.
Kennedy ignored the gallery's profusion of priceless art for the
time and went directly to the mummy-case of the priestess Ka.
"It has a weird history," remarked Dr. Lith. "No less than seven
deaths, as well as many accidents, have been attributed to the
malign influence of that greenish yellow coffin. You know the
ancient Egyptians used to chant as they buried their sacred dead:
'Woe to him who injures the tomb. The dead shall point out the
evildoer to the Devourer of the Underworld. Soul and body shall be
destroyed.'"
It was indeed an awesome thing. It represented a woman in the
robes of an Egyptian priestess, a woman of medium height, with an
inscrutable face. The slanting Egyptian eyes did, as Miss White
had said, almost literally stare through you. I am sure that any
one possessing a nature at all affected by such things might after
a few minutes gazing at them in self-hypnotism really convince
himself that the eyes moved and were real.
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