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"I was glad you did not," Jethro replied. "It will be in about ten days' time. As I believed you guessed, Chigron is embalming him; the process will not be completed for another four days, and, as you know, the relatives do not see the corpse after it is in the hands of the embalmer until it is swathed and in the coffin.
"Impossible?" said the physician, "why, impossible? You open the corpses, you go in and out of the house of the embalmer. Get possession of one of the canopi, Instead of the cover, the head of the genius to which it was dedicated, was placed on each kanopus. lay this heart in it, and take out in its stead the heart of a human being. No one no one will notice it.
"He has gone to his work in the house of the embalmer," was the answer. "If anything should happen to him he bade me tell you not to forget the writing and the book. He was as though out of his mind when he left us, and put the ram's heart in his bag and took it with him. Do you remain with the little one; my mother is at work, and I must go with the prisoners of war to Harmontis."
"Impossible?" said the physician, "why, impossible? You open the corpses, you go in and out of the house of the embalmer. Get possession of one of the canopi, Instead of the cover, the head of the genius to which it was dedicated, was placed on each kanopus. lay this heart in it, and take out in its stead the heart of a human being. No one no one will notice it.
"Well, that is enough!" cried the senior priest to the assembly which had begun to fight in earnest. "Thou, Isis, mayest return to the city, but the rest of us must go to other departed ones who are waiting for our services. We must not neglect the ordinary dead, for it is unknown how much they will pay us for this one." "Not much indeed!" interrupted the embalmer.
The body of the maiden, when embalmed and graced with her portrait, was to be transported to the family tomb in the district of Arsinoe, where they had large possessions, and the gossip of the embalmer was eagerly swallowed as he expatiated on the splendor with which her liberal father proposed to escort her thither.
The journey you speak of would, indeed, be a long and dangerous one; but I agree with you that only by accomplishing it is there even a chance of escape." "Then I commit my son to your charge, Jethro, and I do so with full confidence that if it be possible for him to make this journey in safety he will do so. I have already placed in the hands of Chigron, the embalmer, a large sum of money.
I compared the discolored body with the figure of Ianthe, as revealed in Queen Mab, but failed to see the beautifulness of death. "If you could only make him breathe, Professor," said an officer standing by. The dry skin of the embalmer broke into chalky dimples, and he grinned very much as a corpse might do: "Ah!" he said, "then there would be money made."
"Not for a million dollars would I tease the embalmer that way. Not for a million. Would you, Lucky?" Broad appeared to weigh the figures carefully; then he said, doubtfully: "I'm a cheap guy. I might risk it once for five hundred thousand, cash. But that's rock bottom; I wouldn't take a nickel less." Doret had been listening with some amusement; now he said, "You boys got wide pay-streak, eh?"
"Impossible?" said the physician, "why, impossible? You open the corpses, you go in and out of the house of the embalmer. Get possession of one of the canopi, Instead of the cover, the head of the genius to which it was dedicated, was placed on each kanopus. lay this heart in it, and take out in its stead the heart of a human being. No one no one will notice it.
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