h, and Thickness, there is another World, or State of Existence,
consisting of these and another dimension of which only those beings who
are privileged to enter or dwell in it can have any conception. Now, if
this postulate be granted, it follows that a dweller in this State would
be freed from those conditions of Time and Space which bind those beings
who are confined within the limits of Tri-Dimensional Space, or
Existence. For example, he would be able to make himself visible or
invisible to us at will by entering into or withdrawing himself from
this State, and returning into that of Four Dimensions, whither our eyes
could not follow him--even though he might be close to us in our sense
of nearness. Moreover, he could be in two or more places at once, and
cause two bodies to occupy the same space--which to us is
inconceivable. Stranger still, he might be both alive and dead at the
same time--since Past, Present, and Future would be all one to him; the
world without beginning or end ...--From the "Geometrical
Possibilities," of Abd'el Kasir, of Cordoba, circa. 1050 A.D.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. INTRODUCES THE MUMMY 1

II. BACK TO THE PAST 15

III. THE DEATH-BRIDAL OF NITOCRIS 27

IV. THIEVES IN THE NIGHT 36

V. ACROSS THE THRESHOLD 47

VI. THE LAW OF SELECTION 60

VII. MOSTLY POSSIBILITIES 70

VIII. MISS BRENDA ARRIVES, AND PHADRIG THE
EGYPTIAN PROPHESIES 79

IX. "THE WILDERNESS," WIMBLEDON COMMON 95

X. THE STAGE FILLS 101

XI. THE MARVELS OF PHADRIG 115

XII. CONTROVERSY AND CONFIDENCES 138

XIII. OVER THE TEA AND THE TOAST 157

XIV. "SUPPOSED IMPOSSIBILITIES" 164

XV. THE ADVANCEMENT OF NITOCRIS--THE
RESOLVE OF OSCAROVITCH 176

XVI. THE MYSTERY OF PRINCE ZASTROW 185

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