Were her original intention carried out, and did she come to new life within her mummy wrappings, it might be to exchange a coffin for a grave! She would die the death of the buried alive! But now, when she has voluntarily abandoned for the time her astral power, there can be no doubt on the subject." Margaret's face cleared.

"All right, Father!" she said as she kissed him.

"But oh! it seems a horrible indignity to a Queen, and a woman." I was moving away to the staircase when she called me: "Where are you going ?" I came back and took her hand and stroked it as I answered: "I shall come back when the unrolling is over!" She looked at me long, and a faint suggestion of a smile came over her face as she said: "Perhaps you had better stay, too! It may be useful to you in your work as a barrister!" She smiled out as she met my eyes: but in an instant she changed.

Her face grew grave, and deadly white.

In a far away voice she said: "Father is right! It is a terrible occasion; we need all to be serious over it.