I got a candle and easily found the mark of the bullet.

It had broken a little glass vase and a tazza of black basalt, exquisitely engraved with hieroglyphics, the graven lines being filled with some faint green cement and the whole thing being polished to an equal surface.

The bullet, flattened against the wall, lay on the table.
I then went to the broken cabinet.

It was evidently a receptacle for valuable curios; for in it were some great scarabs of gold, agate, green jasper, amethyst, lapis lazuli, opal, granite, and blue-green china.

None of these things happily were touched.