[The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Jewel of Seven Stars CHAPTER XIV 29/32
All that she might require, either in the accomplishment of the resurrection or after it, were contained in that almost hermetically sealed suite of chambers in the rock.
In the great sarcophagus, which as you know is of a size quite unusual even for kings, was the mummy of her Familiar, the cat, which from its great size I take to be a sort of tiger-cat.
In the tomb, also in a strong receptacle, were the canopic jars usually containing those internal organs which are separately embalmed, but which in this case had no such contents.
So that, I take it, there was in her case a departure in embalming; and that the organs were restored to the body, each in its proper place--if, indeed, they had ever been removed.
If this surmise be true, we shall find that the brain of the Queen either was never extracted in the usual way, or, if so taken out, that it was duly replaced, instead of being enclosed within the mummy wrappings.
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