The Mummy and Miss Nitocris

essor Marmion's family for three generations, was called "The

ar through a vast, wild region of forest and gorse and heather, and the ancestors of the deer in Richmond Park browsed in the shade of ancient oaks and e

m the Elizabethan to the later Georgian. Thus it had come to possess a charm that was all its own, a charm that can never belong to a house that has only been built, and has not grown. Its interior was an embodiment in stone and oak

chase, and tradition had endowed it with a quite authentic ghost: which was that of a fair maiden who had been decoyed thither to become the victim of royal passion,

ver the scene of her sad and shameful death. She seemed to come when and where she listed, whether in the glimpses of the moon or the full sunlight of mid-day. She never passed beyond the limits of the old lodge, and never broke the silence of her comin

your friend the Lady Alicia is paying you a visit. I

d sometimes reply w

ome to regard the wraith, or astral body, as the Professor deemed it, of the unhappy lady almost as a member of the family. Of course,

play in the action of this narrative, her little sto

and more velvety year by year for over three centuries, and divided from it by a low box-hedge was another, levelled up and devoted to tennis and new-style croquet. The Old Lawn, as it was called, sloped away from a broad verandah which ran the whole leng

d many interests in life. The Professor only ran his eye over the envelopes and then put the bundle aside for consideration in the solitude of his own den. Nitocris did the same, picked one out and left the others for similar treatment after she had intervi

ed and skimmed its contents. Then

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er, looking up from his cutlet. "Nothing g

r voice, "quite the reverse, Dad. This is from Brenda, and Brend

e began

t of trouble to smooth things out for him. Well, the Prince, as of course you know, is in London now. He called yesterday, and when I mentioned your party, he said he was very sorry he had not the honour of your father's acquaintance as well as mine. The grammar's a bit wrong there, but you know what I mean. That, of course, meant that he wants to come; and, to be candid, I should like to bring him, for even a

nly with an almost imperceptible start, and, for the

st for money. He will come to-day, if you like, and do wonderful things, which, from what the Prince says, will astonish and perhaps frighten us a bit, but only because the Prince once saved his life and got him out of a

oted chum

as she put the letter

, I must confess that I should rather like to see some of this so-called magician's alleged magic. I know that some of these

he Savoy at once. Perhaps the Egyptian gentleman might be able to help

lin Marmion drily, and we