Chapter I: Foreword

Certain it should be that, beyond and about this World of Length, and Breadth, 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

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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

XVII. 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