With wonderful courage Madcap Max remained silent for a time, afraid of the echo, and yet not afraid to continue his search.
Close to the place where Girzilla had kept the eatables was a sarcophagus, which seemed as if it had not been opened.
Here was something to do.
He resolved to open the stone casket.
The work was easier than he anticipated, for the lid was not fastened down, and Max was able to push it on one side.
He brought over a torch so that he might the better look into the huge cavern-like coffin.
When he did so he saw a mummy; the face, outlined by the cloths, was that of a woman.
“Who can it have been?” he wondered.
And then, with a pure love of fun, he resolved to unwrap the body, which may have been hidden from the world two or three thousand years, and present the mummy to his strange girl friend.
Max was now in his glory.