I had never seen her till I did so in your presence.
"Well, when the treasures which we had--ah!--taken from the tomb had been brought here, Mr.Trelawny arranged their disposition himself.
The mummy, all except the severed hand, he placed in the great ironstone sarcophagus in the hall.

This was wrought for the Theban High Priest Uni, and is, as you may have remarked, all inscribed with wonderful invocations to the old Gods of Egypt.

The rest of the things from the tomb he disposed about his own room, as you have seen.
Amongst them he placed, for special reasons of his own, the mummy hand.
I think he regards this as the most sacred of his possessions, with perhaps one exception.

That is the carven ruby which he calls the 'Jewel of Seven Stars', which he keeps in that great safe which is locked and guarded by various devices, as you know.
"I dare say you find this tedious; but I have had to explain it, so that you should understand all up to the present.

It was a long time after my return with the mummy of Queen Tera when Mr.Trelawny re-opened the subject with me.