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The
vast
distance
between
London
and
Aswan
became
as
naught
;
and
whatever
power
of
necromancy
the
Sorceress
had
might
have
been
exercised
over
the
dead
mother
,
and
possibly
the
dead
child
.
The
dead
child
!
Was
it
possible
that
the
child
was
dead
and
was
made
alive
again
?
Whence
then
came
the
animating
spirit
--
the
soul
?
Logic
was
pointing
the
way
to
me
now
with
a
vengeance
!
If
the
Egyptian
belief
was
true
for
Egyptians
,
then
the
"
Ka
"
of
the
dead
Queen
and
her
"
Khu
"
could
animate
what
she
might
choose
.
In
such
case
Margaret
would
not
be
an
individual
at
all
,
but
simply
a
phase
of
Queen
Tera
herself
;
an
astral
body
obedient
to
her
will
!
Here
I
revolted
against
logic
.
Every
fibre
of
my
being
resented
such
a
conclusion
.
How
could
I
believe
that
there
was
no
Margaret
at
all
;
but
just
an
animated
image
,
used
by
the
Double
of
a
woman
of
forty
centuries
ago
to
its
own
ends
...
!
Somehow
,
the
outlook
was
brighter
to
me
now
,
despite
the
new
doubts
.
At
least
I
had
Margaret
!
Back
swung
the
logical
pendulum
again
.
The
child
then
was
not
dead
.
If
so
,
had
the
Sorceress
had
anything
to
do
with
her
birth
at
all
?
It
was
evident
--
so
I
took
it
again
from
Corbeck
--
that
there
was
a
strange
likeness
between
Margaret
and
the
pictures
of
Queen
Tera
.
How
could
this
be
?
It
could
not
be
any
birth-mark
reproducing
what
had
been
in
the
mother
's
mind
;
for
Mrs.
Trelawny
had
never
seen
the
pictures
.
Nay
,
even
her
father
had
not
seen
them
till
he
had
found
his
way
into
the
tomb
only
a
few
days
before
her
birth
.
This
phase
I
could
not
get
rid
of
so
easily
as
the
last
;
the
fibres
of
my
being
remained
quiet
.
There
remained
to
me
the
horror
of
doubt
.
And
even
then
,
so
strange
is
the
mind
of
man
,
Doubt
itself
took
a
concrete
image
;
a
vast
and
impenetrable
gloom
,
through
which
flickered
irregularly
and
spasmodically
tiny
points
of
evanescent
light
,
which
seemed
to
quicken
the
darkness
into
a
positive
existence
.
The
remaining
possibility
of
relations
between
Margaret
and
the
mummied
Queen
was
,
that
in
some
occult
way
the
Sorceress
had
power
to
change
places
with
the
other
.
This
view
of
things
could
not
be
so
lightly
thrown
aside
.
There
were
too
many
suspicious
circumstances
to
warrant
this
,
now
that
my
attention
was
fixed
on
it
and
my
intelligence
recognised
the
possibility
.
Hereupon
there
began
to
come
into
my
mind
all
the
strange
incomprehensible
matters
which
had
whirled
through
our
lives
in
the
last
few
days
.
At
first
they
all
crowded
in
upon
me
in
a
jumbled
mass
;
but
again
the
habit
of
mind
of
my
working
life
prevailed
,
and
they
took
order
.
I
found
it
now
easier
to
control
myself
;
for
there
was
something
to
grasp
,
some
work
to
be
done
;
though
it
was
of
a
sorry
kind
,
for
it
was
or
might
be
antagonistic
to
Margaret
.
But
Margaret
was
herself
at
stake
!
I
was
thinking
of
her
and
fighting
for
her
;
and
yet
if
I
were
to
work
in
the
dark
,
I
might
be
even
harmful
to
her
.
My
first
weapon
in
her
defence
was
truth
.
I
must
know
and
understand
;
I
might
then
be
able
to
act
.
Certainly
,
I
could
not
act
beneficently
without
a
just
conception
and
recognition
of
the
facts
.
Arranged
in
order
these
were
as
follows
:
Firstly
:
the
strange
likeness
of
Queen
Tera
to
Margaret
who
had
been
born
in
another
country
a
thousand
miles
away
,
where
her
mother
could
not
possibly
have
had
even
a
passing
knowledge
of
her
appearance
.
