What meant that odd raised place?
I said nothing to Miss Trelawny, for I feared lest I should either frighten her or buoy her up with future hopes; but I made up my mind that I would take an early opportunity for further investigation.
Close beside the sarcophagus was a low table of green stone with red veins in it, like bloodstone.

The feet were fashioned like the paws of a jackal, and round each leg was twined a full-throated snake wrought exquisitely in pure gold.

On it rested a strange and very beautiful coffer or casket of stone of a peculiar shape.

It was something like a small coffin, except that the longer sides, instead of being cut off square like the upper or level part were continued to a point.

Thus it was an irregular septahedron, there being two planes on each of the two sides, one end and a top and bottom.