Those which have as yet been examined bear no inscriptions, and contain only effigies of the dead for whom the tomb was made." Then he went on with his narrative: "Trelawny, when he saw that I had caught his meaning, went on speaking with something of his old enthusiasm: "'I have come to the conclusion that there must be a serdab--a secret one.

We were dull not to have thought of it before.

We might have known that the maker of such a tomb--a woman, who had shown in other ways such a sense of beauty and completeness, and who had finished every detail with a feminine richness of elaboration--would not have neglected such an architectural feature.

Even if it had not its own special significance in ritual, she would have had it as an adornment.
Others had had it, and she liked her own work to be complete.

Depend upon it, there was--there is--a serdab; and that in it, when it is discovered, we shall find the lamps.