As Pent-Ah closed the door and bolted it, he said to him in Coptic: "So ye have returned! What news of the Queen?
For without that surely ye would not have dared to come before me." He spoke the words as a Pharaoh might have spoken them to a slave, and as though the bare, low-ceiled, shabby room, with its tawdry Oriental curtains and ornaments, had been an audience-chamber in the palace of Pepi in old Memphis, for this was he who had once been Anemen-Ha, High Priest of Ptah, in the days when Nitocris was Queen of the Two Kingdoms.
"We have seen her once more, Lord," said Pent-Ah, "scarce an hour ago, dressed after the fashion of these heathen English, and seated in a devil-chariot beside another woman, as fair almost as she.

It is true, Lord, even as we said, that our Lady the Queen is in the flesh again, and yet she knows us not.

It may be that the High Gods have laid some spell upon her." "Spell or no spell, the mission which is ours is the same," was the reply.

"It is plain that a miracle has been worked.

The Mummy which we--I as well as you--were charged to recover and restore to its resting-place, has vanished.