For it came to me all at once that I was in a desert place, with strange men who were with me because they were not over-scrupulous.

That we were in a lone cavern of the dead, an hundred feet above the ground, where none could find me were ill done to me, nor would any ever seek.

But in secret I determined that I would come again, though with more secure following.

Moreover, was I tempted to seek further, as in examining the wrappings I saw many things of strange import in that wondrous tomb; including a casket of eccentric shape made of some strange stone, which methought might have contained other jewels, inasmuch as it had secure lodgment in the great sarcophagus itself.

There was in the tomb also another coffer which, though of rare proportion and adornment, was more simply shaped.