I. M. NICOL HENDRY 199

XVIII. MURDER BY SUGGESTION 210

XIX. THE HORUS STONE 220

XX. THROUGH THE CENTURIES 237

XXI. WHAT HAPPENED AT TRELITZ 251

XXII. A TRIP ON THE SOUND 260

XXIII. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PROFESSOR 274

XXIV. THE LUST THAT WAS--AND IS 281

XXV. THE PASSING OF PHADRIG 290

XXVI. CAPTAIN MERILL'S COMMISSION 304

XXVII. THE BRIDAL OF OSCAROVITCH 307

EPILOGUE 312

THE MUMMY AND MISS NITOCRIS

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCES THE MUMMY

"Oh, what a perfectly lovely mummy! Just fancy!--the poor thing--dead
how many years? Something like five thousand, isn't it? And doesn't she
look just like me! I mean, wouldn't she, if we had both been dead as
long?"

As she said this, Miss Nitocris Marmion, the golden-haired, black-eyed
daughter of one of the most celebrated mathematicians and physicists in
Europe, stood herself up beside the mummy-case which her father had
received that morning from Memphis.

"Look!" she continued. "I am almost the same height. Just a little
taller, perhaps, but you see her hair is nearly as fair as mine. Of
course, you don't know what colour her eyes are--just fancy, Dad! they
have been shut for nearly five thousand years, perhaps a little
more--because I think they counted by dynasties then--and yet look at
the features! Just imagine me dead!"

"Just imagine yourself shutting the door on the other side, my dear
Niti," said the Professor, who had risen from the chair, and was facing
his daughter and the Mummy. "I don't want to banish you too
unceremoniously, but I really have a lot of work to do to-night, and, as
you might know, Bachelor of Science of London as you are, I have got to
worry out as best I can, if I can do it at all, this problem that
Hartley sent me about the Forty-seventh Proposition of the first book of
Euclid."

"Oh yes," she said, going to his side and putting her hand on to his
shoulder as he stood facing the Mummy; "I have reason enough to remember
that. A