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"
The
cat
!
The
mummy
cat
!
I
knew
it
!
"
Mr.
Trelawny
smiled
over
at
him
.
"
You
are
right
!
There
is
every
indication
that
the
Familiar
of
the
Wizard
Queen
was
that
cat
which
was
mummied
when
she
was
,
and
was
not
only
placed
in
her
tomb
,
but
was
laid
in
the
sarcophagus
with
her
.
That
was
what
bit
into
my
wrist
,
what
cut
me
with
sharp
claws
.
"
He
paused
.
Margaret
's
comment
was
a
purely
girlish
one
:
"
Then
my
poor
Silvio
is
acquitted
!
I
am
glad
!
"
Her
father
stroked
her
hair
and
went
on
:
"
This
woman
seems
to
have
had
an
extraordinary
foresight
.
Foresight
far
,
far
beyond
her
age
and
the
philosophy
of
her
time
.
She
seems
to
have
seen
through
the
weakness
of
her
own
religion
,
and
even
prepared
for
emergence
into
a
different
world
.
All
her
aspirations
were
for
the
North
,
the
point
of
the
compass
whence
blew
the
cool
invigorating
breezes
that
make
life
a
joy
.
From
the
first
,
her
eyes
seem
to
have
been
attracted
to
the
seven
stars
of
the
Plough
from
the
fact
,
as
recorded
in
the
hieroglyphics
in
her
tomb
,
that
at
her
birth
a
great
aerolite
fell
,
from
whose
heart
was
finally
extracted
that
Jewel
of
Seven
Stars
which
she
regarded
as
the
talisman
of
her
life
.
It
seems
to
have
so
far
ruled
her
destiny
that
all
her
thought
and
care
circled
round
it
.
The
Magic
Coffer
,
so
wondrously
wrought
with
seven
sides
,
we
learn
from
the
same
source
,
came
from
the
aerolite
.
Seven
was
to
her
a
magic
number
;
and
no
wonder
.
With
seven
fingers
on
one
hand
,
and
seven
toes
on
one
foot
.
With
a
talisman
of
a
rare
ruby
with
seven
stars
in
the
same
position
as
in
that
constellation
which
ruled
her
birth
,
each
star
of
the
seven
having
seven
points
--
in
itself
a
geological
wonder
--
it
would
have
been
odd
if
she
had
not
been
attracted
by
it
.
Again
,
she
was
born
,
we
learn
in
the
Stele
of
her
tomb
,
in
the
seventh
month
of
the
year
--
the
month
beginning
with
the
Inundation
of
the
Nile
.
Of
which
month
the
presiding
Goddess
was
Hathor
,
the
Goddess
of
her
own
house
,
of
the
Antefs
of
the
Theban
line
--
the
Goddess
who
in
various
forms
symbolises
beauty
,
and
pleasure
,
and
resurrection
.
Again
,
in
this
seventh
month
--
which
,
by
later
Egyptian
astronomy
began
on
October
28th
,
and
ran
to
the
27th
of
our
November
--
on
the
seventh
day
the
Pointer
of
the
Plough
just
rises
above
the
horizon
of
the
sky
at
Thebes
.
"
In
a
marvellously
strange
way
,
therefore
,
are
grouped
into
this
woman
's
life
these
various
things
.
The
number
seven
;
the
Pole
Star
,
with
the
constellation
of
seven
stars
;
the
God
of
the
month
,
Hathor
,
who
was
her
own
particular
God
,
the
God
of
her
family
,
the
Antefs
of
the
Theban
Dynasty
,
whose
Kings
'
symbol
it
was
,
and
whose
seven
forms
ruled
love
and
the
delights
of
life
and
resurrection
.
If
ever
there
was
ground
for
magic
;
for
the
power
of
symbolism
carried
into
mystic
use
;
for
a
belief
in
finites
spirits
in
an
age
which
knew
not
the
Living
God
,
it
is
here
.
"
Remember
,
too
,
that
this
woman
was
skilled
in
all
the
science
of
her
time
.
Her
wise
and
cautious
father
took
care
of
that
,
knowing
that
by
her
own
wisdom
she
must
ultimately
combat
the
intrigues
of
the
Hierarchy
.
Bear
in
mind
that
in
old
Egypt
the
science
of
Astronomy
began
and
was
developed
to
an
extraordinary
height
;
and
that
Astrology
followed
Astronomy
in
its
progress
.
And
it
is
possible
that
in
the
later
developments
of
science
with
regard
to
light
rays
,
we
may
yet
find
that
Astrology
is
on
a
scientific
basis
.
Our
next
wave
of
scientific
thought
may
deal
with
this
.
I
shall
have
something
special
to
call
your
minds
to
on
this
point
presently
.
Bear
in
mind
also
that
the
Egyptians
knew
sciences
,
of
which
today
,
despite
all
our
advantages
,
we
are
profoundly
ignorant
.
Acoustics
,
for
instance
,
an
exact
science
with
the
builders
of
the
temples
of
Karnak
,
of
Luxor
,
of
the
Pyramids
,
is
today
a
mystery
to
Bell
,
and
Kelvin
,
and
Edison
,
and
Marconi
.
Again
,
these
old
miracle-workers
probably
understood
some
practical
way
of
using
other
forces
,
and
amongst
them
the
forces
of
light
that
at
present
we
do
not
dream
of
.
But
of
this
matter
I
shall
speak
later
.
That
Magic
Coffer
of
Queen
Tera
is
probably
a
magic
box
in
more
ways
than
one
.
It
may
--
possibly
it
does
--
contain
forces
that
we
wot
not
of
.
We
can
not
open
it
;
it
must
be
closed
from
within
.
How
then
was
it
closed
?
It
is
a
coffer
of
solid
stone
,
of
amazing
hardness
,
more
like
a
jewel
than
an
ordinary
marble
,
with
a
lid
equally
solid
;
and
yet
all
is
so
finely
wrought
that
the
finest
tool
made
today
can
not
be
inserted
under
the
flange
.
How
was
it
wrought
to
such
perfection
?
How
was
the
stone
so
chosen
that
those
translucent
patches
match
the
relations
of
the
seven
stars
of
the
constellation
?
How
is
it
,
or
from
what
cause
,
that
when
the
starlight
shines
on
it
,
it
glows
from
within
--
that
when
I
fix
the
lamps
in
similar
form
the
glow
grows
greater
still
;
and
yet
the
box
is
irresponsive
to
ordinary
light
however
great
?
I
tell
you
that
that
box
hides
some
great
mystery
of
science
.
We
shall
find
that
the
light
will
open
it
in
some
way
:
either
by
striking
on
some
substance
,
sensitive
in
a
peculiar
way
to
its
effect
,
or
in
releasing
some
greater
power
.
I
only
trust
that
in
our
ignorance
we
may
not
so
bungle
things
as
to
do
harm
to
its
mechanism
;
and
so
deprive
the
knowledge
of
our
time
of
a
lesson
handed
down
,
as
by
a
miracle
,
through
nearly
five
thousand
years
.
"
In
another
way
,
too
,
there
may
be
hidden
in
that
box
secrets
which
,
for
good
or
ill
,
may
enlighten
the
world
.
We
know
from
their
records
,
and
inferentially
also
,
that
the
Egyptians
studied
the
properties
of
herbs
and
minerals
for
magic
purposes
--
white
magic
as
well
as
black
.
We
know
that
some
of
the
wizards
of
old
could
induce
from
sleep
dreams
of
any
given
kind
.
That
this
purpose
was
mainly
effected
by
hypnotism
,
which
was
another
art
or
science
of
Old
Nile
,
I
have
little
doubt
.
But
still
,
they
must
have
had
a
mastery
of
drugs
that
is
far
beyond
anything
we
know
.
With
our
own
pharmacopoeia
we
can
,
to
a
certain
extent
,
induce
dreams
.
We
may
even
differentiate
between
good
and
bad
--
dreams
of
pleasure
,
or
disturbing
and
harrowing
dreams
.
But
these
old
practitioners
seemed
to
have
been
able
to
command
at
will
any
form
or
colour
of
dreaming
;
could
work
round
any
given
subject
or
thought
in
almost
any
was
required
.
In
that
coffer
,
which
you
have
seen
,
may
rest
a
very
armoury
of
dreams
.
Indeed
,
some
of
the
forces
that
lie
within
it
may
have
been
already
used
in
my
household
.
"
Again
there
was
an
interruption
from
Doctor
Winchester
.
"
But
if
in
your
case
some
of
these
imprisoned
forces
were
used
,
what
set
them
free
at
the
opportune
time
,
or
how
?
Besides
,
you
and
Mr.
Corbeck
were
once
before
put
into
a
trance
for
three
whole
days
,
when
you
were
in
the
Queen
's
tomb
for
the
second
time
.
And
then
,
as
I
gathered
from
Mr.
Corbeck
's
story
,
the
coffer
was
not
back
in
the
tomb
,
though
the
mummy
was
.
