Then, gradually, almost insensibly, the marginal portion began to darken, leaving the outline of the mummy in pale relief.

The change, once started, proceeded apace.
Darker and darker grew the margin of the paper until from slaty grey it had turned to black; and still the shape of the mummy, now in strong relief, remained an elongated patch of bald white.

But not for long.
Presently the white shape began to be tinged with grey, and, as the colour deepened, there grew out of it a paler form that seemed to steal out of the enshrouding grey like an apparition, spectral, awesome, mysterious.

The skeleton was coming into view.
"It is rather uncanny," said Dr.Norbury.

"I feel as if I were assisting at some unholy rite.