"Now, Polton," he said sharply; "get the hypo on as quickly as you can." Polton, who had been waiting with his hand on the stop-cock of the drain-tube, rapidly ran off the developer into the bucket and flooded the paper with the fixing solution.
"Now we can look at it at our leisure," said Thorndyke.

After waiting a few seconds, he switched on one of the glow-lamps, and as the flood of light fell on the photograph, he added: "You see we haven't quite lost the skeleton." "No." Dr.Norbury put on a pair of spectacles and bent down over the tray; and at this moment I felt Ruth's hand touch my arm, lightly, at first, and then with a strong, nervous grasp; and I could feel that her hand was trembling.

I looked round at her anxiously and saw that she had turned deathly pale.
"Would you rather go out into the gallery ?" I asked; for the room with its tightly shut windows was close and hot.
"No," she replied quietly, "I will stay here.

I am quite well." But still she kept hold of my arm.
Thorndyke glanced at her keenly and then looked away as Dr.Norbury turned to him to ask a question.
"Why is it, think you, that some of the teeth show so much whiter than others ?" "I think the whiteness of the shadows is due to the presence of metal," Thorndyke replied.
"Do you mean that the teeth have metal fillings ?" asked Dr.Norbury.
"Yes." "Really! This is very interesting.

The use of gold stoppings--and artificial teeth, too--by the ancient Egyptians is well known, but we have no examples in the Museum.