Clearly an X-ray photograph was being made; but of what?
I strained my eyes, peering into the gloom at the foot of the gallows, but though I could make out an elongated object lying on the floor directly under the bulb, I could not resolve the dimly seen shape into anything recognisable.

Presently, however, Dr.Norbury supplied the clue.
"I am rather surprised," said he, "that you chose so composite an object as a mummy to begin on.

I should have thought that a simpler object, such as a coffin or a wooden figure, would have been more instructive." "In some ways it would," replied Thorndyke, "but the variety of materials that the mummy gives us has its advantages.

I hope your father is not ill, Miss Bellingham." "He is not at all well," said Ruth, "and we agreed that it was better for me to come alone.

I knew Herr Lederbogen quite well.