It almost seems to be alive.' "'Do you know why it seems so ?' "'From the glare of the light, I suppose ?' "'Light of course,' he answered, 'but it is rather the disposition of light.' As he spoke he turned up the ordinary lights of the room and switched off the special ones.

The effect on the stone box was surprising; in a second it lost all its glowing effect.

It was still a very beautiful stone, as always; but it was stone and no more.
"'Do you notice anything about the arrangement of the lamps ?' he asked.
"'No!' "'They were in the shape of the stars in the Plough, as the stars are in the ruby!' The statement came to me with a certain sense of conviction.

I do not know why, except that there had been so many mysterious associations with the mummy and all belonging to it that any new one seemed enlightening.

I listened as Trelawny went on to explain: "'For sixteen years I have never ceased to think of that adventure, or to try to find a clue to the mysteries which came before us; but never until last night did I seem to find a solution.