He believes that she intends to come back from the dead, and Trelawny intends to help her… Slowly he and Margaret learn that her father has been studying one mummy in particular, Queen Tera, and believes that she had magical skills. So Malcolm offers to stay at the house, and helps with the watching while carrying on his wooing. And two people must watch over him each night. He must not be removed from his room, which is full of Egyptian treasures he has “collected” from tombs, including several sarcophagi. He has, oddly, left instructions on what must be done in just such an eventuality. Abel Trelawny’s physical injuries are severe but not life-threatening, but he is in a strange comatose condition. Malcolm rushes to her side, as do the doctor and the police. Her father has been attacked and seriously injured. Our narrator, barrister Malcolm Ross, is sent a message by the girl he’s already well on the way to falling in love with, Margaret Trelawny, begging him to come to her aid.
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