CHAPTER XVIII.
STANLEY APOLOGIZES After lunch they all went into the library to look over the Dean's newly arrived treasures.
"Well, for pity's sakes," exclaimed Kit, as she stood before the plain, squat, terra-cotta urn, "is that the royal urn?
I expected to see something enormous, like everything else that is wonderful and ancient in Egypt." "Dear child," the Dean responded, happily, as he bent down to trace the curious, cuneiform markings which circled the urn.

"This antedates the time of the Captivity and Moses.

I cannot tell positively, until I have opened it and deciphered what I can of the papyrus rolls within.

If it should go back to Moses, it will be wonderful.

I cannot believe that it is contemporary with Nineveh.