"Did you ever see a set of lamps of these shapes--of any one of these shapes?
Look at these dominant figures on them! Did you ever see so complete a set--even in Scotland Yard; even in Bow Street?
Look! one on each, the seven forms of Hathor.

Look at that figure of the Ka of a Princess of the Two Egypts, standing between Ra and Osiris in the Boat of the Dead, with the Eye of Sleep, supported on legs, bending before her; and Harmochis rising in the north.

Will you find that in the British Museum--or Bow Street?
Or perhaps your studies in the Gizeh Museum, or the Fitzwilliam, or Paris, or Leyden, or Berlin, have shown you that the episode is common in hieroglyphics; and that this is only a copy.
Perhaps you can tell me what that figure of Ptah-Seker-Ausar holding the Tet wrapped in the Sceptre of Papyrus means?
Did you ever see it before; even in the British Museum, or Gizeh, or Scotland Yard ?" He broke off suddenly; and then went on in quite a different way: "Look here! it seems to me that the thick-headed idiot is myself! I beg your pardon, old fellow, for my rudeness.

I quite lost my temper at the suggestion that I do not know these lamps.

You don't mind, do you ?" The Detective answered heartily: "Lord, sir, not I.