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THE MUMMY.
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to climb the wall, I had been lost:—but hark, she comes!"
The door now slowly opened, and a female figure holding a light appeared.
"How is she?" cried the stranger.
"Better," returned the female.
"Then it is past the power of man to kill her," resumed the first; and rushing wildly past her he buried himself in the deepest recesses of the grove.
