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"
Or
for
a
giantess
!
"
said
Margaret
.
This
sarcophagus
stood
near
to
one
of
the
windows
.
It
was
in
one
respect
different
from
all
the
other
sarcophagi
in
the
place
.
All
the
others
in
the
house
,
of
whatever
material
--
granite
,
porphyry
,
ironstone
,
basalt
,
slate
,
or
wood
--
were
quite
simple
in
form
within
.
Some
of
them
were
plain
of
interior
surface
;
others
were
engraved
,
in
whole
or
part
,
with
hieroglyphics
.
But
each
and
all
of
them
had
no
protuberances
or
uneven
surface
anywhere
.
They
might
have
been
used
for
baths
;
indeed
,
they
resembled
in
many
ways
Roman
baths
of
stone
or
marble
which
I
had
seen
.
Inside
this
,
however
,
was
a
raised
space
,
outlined
like
a
human
figure
.
I
asked
Margaret
if
she
could
explain
it
in
any
way
.
For
answer
she
said
:
"
Father
never
wished
to
speak
about
this
.
It
attracted
my
attention
from
the
first
;
but
when
I
asked
him
about
it
he
said
:
'
I
shall
tell
you
all
about
it
some
day
,
little
girl
--
if
I
live
!
But
not
yet
!
The
story
is
not
yet
told
,
as
I
hope
to
tell
it
to
you
!
Some
day
,
perhaps
soon
,
I
shall
know
all
;
and
then
we
shall
go
over
it
together
.
And
a
mighty
interesting
story
you
will
find
it
--
from
first
to
last
!
'
Once
afterward
I
said
,
rather
lightly
I
am
afraid
:
'
Is
that
story
of
the
sarcophagus
told
yet
,
Father
?
'
He
shook
his
head
,
and
looked
at
me
gravely
as
he
said
:
'N
ot
yet
,
little
girl
;
but
it
will
be
--
if
I
live
--
if
I
live
!
'
His
repeating
that
phrase
about
his
living
rather
frightened
me
;
I
never
ventured
to
ask
him
again
.
"
Somehow
this
thrilled
me
.
I
could
not
exactly
say
how
or
why
;
but
it
seemed
like
a
gleam
of
light
at
last
.
There
are
,
I
think
,
moments
when
the
mind
accepts
something
as
true
;
though
it
can
account
for
neither
the
course
of
the
thought
,
nor
,
if
there
be
more
than
one
thought
,
the
connection
between
them
.
Hitherto
we
had
been
in
such
outer
darkness
regarding
Mr.
Trelawny
,
and
the
strange
visitation
which
had
fallen
on
him
,
that
anything
which
afforded
a
clue
,
even
of
the
faintest
and
most
shadowy
kind
,
had
at
the
outset
the
enlightening
satisfaction
of
a
certainty
.
Here
were
two
lights
of
our
puzzle
.
The
first
that
Mr.
Trelawny
associated
with
this
particular
curio
a
doubt
of
his
own
living
.
The
second
that
he
had
some
purpose
or
expectation
with
regard
to
it
,
which
he
would
not
disclose
,
even
to
his
daughter
,
till
complete
.
Again
it
was
to
be
borne
in
mind
that
this
sarcophagus
differed
internally
from
all
the
others
.
What
meant
that
odd
raised
place
?
I
said
nothing
to
Miss
Trelawny
,
for
I
feared
lest
I
should
either
frighten
her
or
buoy
her
up
with
future
hopes
;
but
I
made
up
my
mind
that
I
would
take
an
early
opportunity
for
further
investigation
.
Close
beside
the
sarcophagus
was
a
low
table
of
green
stone
with
red
veins
in
it
,
like
bloodstone
.
The
feet
were
fashioned
like
the
paws
of
a
jackal
,
and
round
each
leg
was
twined
a
full-throated
snake
wrought
exquisitely
in
pure
gold
.
On
it
rested
a
strange
and
very
beautiful
coffer
or
casket
of
stone
of
a
peculiar
shape
.
It
was
something
like
a
small
coffin
,
except
that
the
longer
sides
,
instead
of
being
cut
off
square
like
the
upper
or
level
part
were
continued
to
a
point
.
Thus
it
was
an
irregular
septahedron
,
there
being
two
planes
on
each
of
the
two
sides
,
one
end
and
a
top
and
bottom
.
The
stone
,
of
one
piece
of
which
it
was
wrought
,
was
such
as
I
had
never
seen
before
.
At
the
base
it
was
of
a
full
green
,
the
colour
of
emerald
without
,
of
course
,
its
gleam
.
It
was
not
by
any
means
dull
,
however
,
either
in
colour
or
substance
,
and
was
of
infinite
hardness
and
fineness
of
texture
.
The
surface
was
almost
that
of
a
jewel
.
The
colour
grew
lighter
as
it
rose
,
with
gradation
so
fine
as
to
be
imperceptible
,
changing
to
a
fine
yellow
almost
of
the
colour
of
"
mandarin
"
china
.
It
was
quite
unlike
anything
I
had
ever
seen
,
and
did
not
resemble
any
stone
or
gem
that
I
knew
.
I
took
it
to
be
some
unique
mother-stone
,
or
matrix
of
some
gem
.
It
was
wrought
all
over
,
except
in
a
few
spots
,
with
fine
hieroglyphics
,
exquisitely
done
and
coloured
with
the
same
blue-green
cement
or
pigment
that
appeared
on
the
sarcophagus
.
In
length
it
was
about
two
feet
and
a
half
;
in
breadth
about
half
this
,
and
was
nearly
a
foot
high
.
The
vacant
spaces
were
irregularly
distributed
about
the
top
running
to
the
pointed
end
.
These
places
seemed
less
opaque
than
the
rest
of
the
stone
.
I
tried
to
lift
up
the
lid
so
that
I
might
see
if
they
were
translucent
;
but
it
was
securely
fixed
.
It
fitted
so
exactly
that
the
whole
coffer
seemed
like
a
single
piece
of
stone
mysteriously
hollowed
from
within
.
On
the
sides
and
edges
were
some
odd-looking
protuberances
wrought
just
as
finely
as
any
other
portion
of
the
coffer
which
had
been
sculptured
by
manifest
design
in
the
cutting
of
the
stone
.
They
had
queer-shaped
holes
or
hollows
,
different
in
each
;
and
,
like
the
rest
,
were
covered
with
the
hieroglyphic
figures
,
cut
finely
and
filled
in
with
the
same
blue-green
cement
.
On
the
other
side
of
the
great
sarcophagus
stood
another
small
table
of
alabaster
,
exquisitely
chased
with
symbolic
figures
of
gods
and
the
signs
of
the
zodiac
.
On
this
table
stood
a
case
of
about
a
foot
square
composed
of
slabs
of
rock
crystal
set
in
a
skeleton
of
bands
of
red
gold
,
beautifully
engraved
with
hieroglyphics
,
and
coloured
with
a
blue
green
,
very
much
the
tint
of
the
figures
on
the
sarcophagus
and
the
coffer
.
The
whole
work
was
quite
modern
.
