The Lair of the White Worm Chapter 12 - The Chest Opened

In which Edgar Caswall becomes engrossed in the perplexing mystery of a locked steel-hooped chest, experiencing strange nocturnal compulsions and a curious intertwining of wakefulness and slumber as he attempts to unravel its secrets. Amidst his investigations, he diverts his attention to experimenting with the lifting power of a giant kite, finding himself intrigued by an ancient Egyptian idol of lodestone, which he proposes to send aloft as a test of the kite’s strength.