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After a short silence he spoke again.
"My eyes are not very clear, and the ice is dirty, but it seems to me that there is a hole in the top of the skull. Am I right?"
"You are."
"Trepanning?"
"Exactly."
That caused a murmur of excitement. The Master moved out of the way and Lyra could see again. The old Sub-Rectorfurther than anyone imagined!"
"Did I hear you say you found it near Svalbard?" said the Dean.
"That's right."
"Are we to understand that the panserbj0rne had anything to do with this?"
Lyra didn't recognize that word, but clearly the Scholars did., in the circle of light thrown by the lantern, was holding a heavy block of ice up close to his eyes, and Lyra could see the object inside it: a bloody lump barely recognizable as a human head. Pantalaimon fluttered around Lyra, his distress affecting her."Hush," she whispered. "Listen.""Dr. Grumman was once a Scholar of this said the Dean hotly."To fall into the hands of the Tartars-" "But that far north?""They must have penetrated
"Impossible," said the Cassington Scholar firmly. "They'd never behave in that manner