Then I returned and carried the deceased up to one of the third-floor rooms, where I removed his clothes and laid him out on a long packing-case in the position in which he would lie in the mummy-case.

I folded his clothes neatly and packed them, with the exception of his boots, in a suit-case that he had been taking to Paris and which contained nothing but his night-clothes, toilet articles, and a change of linen.

By the time I had done this and thoroughly washed the oilcloth on the stairs and landing, the caretaker had returned.

I informed him that Mr.
Bellingham had started for Paris and then I went home.

The upper part of the house was, of course, secured by the Chubb lock, but I had also--_ex abundantia cautelae_--locked the door of the room in which I had deposited the deceased.
"I had, of course, some knowledge of the methods of embalming, but principally of those employed by the ancients.