Ay, and they succeeded so well that even Manetho, the historian of the Egyptian Kings, writing in the tenth century before Christ, with all the lore of the priesthood for forty centuries behind him, and with possibility of access to every existing record, could not even find her name.

Did it strike any of you, in thinking of the late events, who or what her Familiar was ?" There was an interruption, for Doctor Winchester struck one hand loudly on the other as he ejaculated: "The cat! The mummy cat! I knew it!" Mr.Trelawny smiled over at him.
"You are right! There is every indication that the Familiar of the Wizard Queen was that cat which was mummied when she was, and was not only placed in her tomb, but was laid in the sarcophagus with her.
That was what bit into my wrist, what cut me with sharp claws." He paused.

Margaret's comment was a purely girlish one: "Then my poor Silvio is acquitted! I am glad!" Her father stroked her hair and went on: "This woman seems to have had an extraordinary foresight.

Foresight far, far beyond her age and the philosophy of her time.

She seems to have seen through the weakness of her own religion, and even prepared for emergence into a different world.