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He proposed to open the thing and to submit the entire contents to examination to-night. He evidently changed his mind fortunately for himself." I ran my fingers through my hair in perplexity. "Then what has become of the mummy?" Nayland Smith laughed dryly. "It has vanished in the form of a green vapor apparently," he said. "Look at Strozza's face."
Strozza's opening the sarcophagus clearly spoiled the scheme." "And led to the death " "Of a servant of Fu-Manchu. Yes. I am at a loss to account for that." "Do you think that the sarcophagus entered into the scheme, Smith?" My friend looked at me in evident perplexity. "You mean that its arrival at the time when a creature of the Doctor Kwee was concealed here, may have been a coincidence?"
There were no marks of violence, but his limbs, like Strozza's, had been tortured during his mortal struggles into unnatural postures. The breeze was growing higher, and pungent odor-waves from the damp shrubbery, bearing, too, the oppressive sweetness of the creeping plant, swept constantly through the open window. Inspector Weymouth carefully relighted his cigar. "I'm with you this far, Mr.
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