He nodded across the bed to the Russian, and together they turned the bedclothes down to the foot.

Then from under the bed he pulled out a bundle of grey skins which he spread on the floor beside the bed.

It was a sleeping bag such as hunters use in winter on the snow-swept plains and forests of Northern Europe.

Vollmar turned the head-flap back.

Then they lifted the body of the Prince from the bed, slid it into the sack, and buttoned the flap down over the face.
"That Egyptian's drug has worked well," whispered Von Kessner.
Vollmar nodded, and whispered back: "I wish I had a handful of it.