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'Good heavens, man, do you realize that you're trying to make me believe that which is beyond the pale of all human possibility! "'Human possibility! What is human possibility? I tell you that all this is fact; simply. Ombos rose and began to pace to and fro over the Persian rugs like a tiger. 'I'm not given to imagining things. "'Bah! he grunted.
There are numerous catacombs in Egypt, the principal of which are at Alexandria; at Sakkara, near Cairo; at Siut, near the ancient Lycopolis or City of the Wolf; at Gebel Silsilis, on the banks of the Nile between Etfu and Ombos, the site of one of the principal quarries of ancient Egypt; and at Thebes.
Within a few days I went round again to the old shop, and old Ombos was standing there amid his Queen Anne candlesticks and piles of books just as if he had been waiting for me. "'Come in, come in! he said, speaking in a voice that made me feel honestly welcome. 'Dear me, dear me! I am very glad you have not forgotten me. "'No, I said. 'Not forgotten you or the bronze statue.
A request that the British Museum would graciously take over a bronze statue, the soul of departed Ombos, and a blind terror that walked at twilight! The vicar's proposal sent me into a paroxysm of hysterical laughter. "I'd gone into the library one afternoon about four, as I had heavy arrears of letter-writing to make up. By half past six I had finished.
He took me by the arm and pointed to the black velvet curtain which hid the bronze statue. 'See, there: behind through the curtain. Who is that? "While I looked, Ombos gave a strange rasping sound. Then, in a tone of weird intensity: 'See! See! and he laid his hand on mine ... the curtain was no longer there, and some vague thing gathered the statue was dim behind it the form of a man.
He did not get on with the other gods, and was sometimes confused with Set, who personified natural darkness, and who also was worshipped by the people about Kom Ombos. I have spoken of the golden sameness of the Nile, but this sameness is broken by the variety of the temples. Here you have a striking instance of this variety.
As I stared at him it was all over in a few seconds the baleful glare seemed to grow in intensity, till I felt as though I were enduring the mocking gaze of Albert of Cologne himself; and verily, I half expected any moment to see Ombos change into a mighty bronze demon or some appalling, devilish shape from the under-world.
"As Margot spoke the candles flared up, and then, with a sudden start of unexplained dismay, I saw in a corner by the bed stood the bronze figure. "As I looked at it I felt the horror of nightmare seize me, for it bore a striking resemblance to Ombos.
Afterwards Margot made real Turkish coffee over a dainty spirit lamp ... once in a critical stage in the coffee-making, too she looked up and her eyes sought mine; then her red lips parted in a smile. She poured out the coffee deftly, blowing out the lamp, and put the little copper pot on a plate. "Ombos surveyed his coffee with the air of a connoisseur, his head turned on one side.
Well, what would you say if I tell you that I even I who sit now so soberly before you, whom before the war you knew to be ordinarily, a quiet, peaceably-disposed, sport-loving English fellow had once been under the spell of a bronze statue that somebody had passed clean into?" "You were under the hypnotic influence of your friend Ombos, probably," I suggested.
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