Sardou's Cleopatra — page 260: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA, ~— . 245 CHAPTER XVIII. THE LAST KISS-OF- ALL. In an upper chamber of the monument was _ Cleopatra, attended by Kephren, Charmian, and Iras, all that now remained to her of that vast retinue that, but yesterday, had been obedient to her nod. It was a large room, with walls of black and red granite, brilliantly lighted from above, by lamps set in the form of a crescent, with numer- ous lesser lights representing the starry satelites of the queen of the night. On either side of the broad doorway were enormous statues of the two Rameses,who, in their calm grandeur, looked down with placid, unruffled eyes upon the doom of — Egypt and the fall of its queen. Piled in one corner of the apartment were treas- ures of all descriptions, gold and silver plate, jewels and costly raiment; and among them the royal mantle, crown and scepter. In a curtained recess, upon Cleopatra’s golden | comicbooks CO