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The Vanishing Man

CHAPTER XVIII
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It is the Utchat--the Eye of Horus--or Osiris, if you prefer to call it so.
That, I presume, will be a gilded device on some of the wrappings." "No: I should say it is a tattoo mark.

It is too indefinite for a gilded device.

And I should say further that the tattooing is done in vermilion, as carbon tattooing would cast no visible shadow." "I think you must be mistaken about that," said Dr.Norbury, "but we shall see, if the Director allows us to unroll the mummy.

By the way, those little objects in front of the knees are metallic, I suppose ?" "Yes, they are metallic.

But they are not in front of the knees; they are _in_ the knees.


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