The bullet had gone through the back of the cabinet; but no other damage, save the shattering of the glass, had been done.

I could not but notice the strange arrangement of the curios on the shelf of the cabinet.

All the scarabs, rings, amulets, &c.

were arranged in an uneven oval round an exquisitely-carved golden miniature figure of a hawk-headed God crowned with a disk and plumes.

I did not wait to look further at present, for my attention was demanded by more pressing things; but I determined to make a more minute examination when I should have time.