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two men to me, and late in the afternoon we had the mummy safely at our quarters. Because of the lack of appropriate space at that time, Dr. Brenner requested that I have the mummy in my cabin. The day's work was done, and each man returned to his quarters. I retired to my cabin and read till midnight. Several times I glanced up from my reading and looked at the mummy. It was indeed a great prize, and I congratulated myself on my find.


"THAT night I went to bed, tired from the long day's walking, and sorely craving rest and sleep. But sleep came not so easily, and instead returned again old memories, and pangs, and sorrows. The mummy, in its sarcophagus, was tilted up against the wall; and I envied it, separated as it was from the world of sorrow in its encasement of bandages. A full-orbed moon was high above the Nile, and the light flooded into my room, making everything strangely clear and ouphish. The mummy particularly seemed bizarre in that flood of silvery beams. I regarded it in fascination.

"For several minutes I had been looking at the strangely pleasant sight when I became startled by a peculiar whiteness that had gradually settled on the mummy's face. Dr. Brenner had ascertained that the mummy was that of a young woman, probably a princess from the time of the Pharaohs. It was swathed in bandages, some of which had worn away in parts or had become loose. Imitation eyes, brows, and lips were weirdly painted on the wrappings, probably an effort to simulate the terrible features of a protecting guardian to ward off the evil spirits during the body's voyage to the other world. The figure, plainly discernible within its casing, was beau-


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