The rumblings and mumblings of Lot 249
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 11:42:55 UTC 2022
As Smith uses his medical skills to revive Bellingham, Bellingham's friend
William Monkhouse Lee (to whose sister Bellingham is engaged) explains that
Bellingham has a curious obsession with an Egyptian mummy
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_(monster)>that he *purchased from an
auction sale*. Bellingham keeps the mummy in his room, and has named it
"Lot 249," as those were the words the auctioneers put on its case.
Here it is
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_No._249
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