[The Ancient Allan by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ancient Allan CHAPTER III 18/26
Therefore his welfare was what I wished and wish, and I think he would have had more of it if he had never married me." "Why ?" I asked again. "Because I brought him no good luck, did I? I needn't go through all the story as you know it.
And in the end it was through me that he was killed in Egypt." "Or through the goddess Isis," I broke in rather nervously. "Yes, the goddess Isis, a part I have played in my time, or something like it.
And he was killed in the temple of the goddess Isis.
And those papyri of which you read the translations in the museum, which were given to me in Kendah Land, seem to have come from that same temple. And--how about the Ivory Child? Isis in the temple evidently held a child in her arms, but when we found her it had gone.
Supposing this child was the same as that of which I was guardian! It might have been, since the papyri came from that temple.
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