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 worked himself to such a pitch of excitement for the sake of a dead and vanished past.

I had to confess that after hearing the contents of this so-called explanatory papyrus I was more perplexed than before.

"You don't understand this, do you, old Mark?" resumed Hugh, "any more than my father did; but the whole thing seemed so enigmatical to him, and yet so real, so strange, that he looked round him eagerly for a solution. One by one he opened each of the other three canopic jars, and it was in the last one that he found the priceless papyrus, of a date some