HOGS AND HORACE Kit was delighted over the whole spirit of the letter, and went directly to the Dean with its message.

He was deeply engrossed in getting up his first notes and commentaries on the urn and statue.

It had not seemed for the past two or three weeks as if he resided any longer in Delphi at all.
Kit told Miss Daphne she was positive he was wandering through Egypt all the time, the Egypt of five thousand years ago.

And it was only the shadow of his self that seemed to sit closeted for hours in the study.
He hardly glanced up now as she came in, but smiled and nodded when he saw who it was, keeping on with his writing.
"Just hand me that volume on the second shelf to your right by the door.
Second volume, 'Explorations in Upper Egypt.' Look up Seti I in the index." Kit found the place and laid it before him, perching herself on one end of the desk, as she always did when she wanted to attract his attention.

The little statuette of Annui smiled grotesquely down upon her from its pedestal.