The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-09-04


ance Of having been executed IN great baste
and with difficulty. Just over the head was
a large lump. Presently the bandagcs Gov.
ering Il were of. and there. on the sce. law
a second roll OF papyrus. put down nv
hand TO lIft Il. but IL would not como avay
Il appeared TO be fixcd TO the stont saam-
less shroud which was drawn over n,e
whole body and tied beneath the feet. as a
farmer ties sacks This shroud, which was
also thickly waxed, was in one piece, being
made TO fit the form like garment. took
candle and examined the roll, and then
saw why It was fast The spices had con-
gealed and glued 1t to the sack-like shroud.
It.was impossible TO get II away without
tearing the outer sheets ofpapyrus.
At last, however, wrenched It loose and
put 1t with the other in my pocket.
Then In silence we went ON with our
dreadful task. with much care we rinned
loose the sack like parment and At last Inc
body Of n man Law before tls. Between his
knees was a third roll of papvrus se.
cured IL. and then held down the ligbts ana
looked at him. Being a doctor. one glance
At his face was enough TO tell me how he
had died.
This hodv waa not mucb dried nm Rvi.
IDENTITY !, @ had MT nassed seventv "a Savs II
natrnn and therefore the ernres.ion ana
lireness were hetter nreservea thar d
usual without entering into narticulars
T will onlv say that hone I shaii never see
such another look as that which wus frozen
on this dead mans face. Even the Arabs
recoiled from IL in horror and began 10 mut.
ter PRAYERS.
For the rest. tho usual onening ON the ieft
s,de ,hrougb which the embalmers d;a
their wo,k ya. absent. tine fIneIv cut feat.
nres were tbose of person OF middle ACE.
althou0h the hair wa, already eray. and the
frame that NJ a .noverfnI man, fhe .boul.
ders heing ofsanf ert,aordIn AZ, vvidth I
had not time to examine verv Closely. how
aver for ,vithin a few second. from ~ nm
coverino the unembalmed bodv. now tbat a
was exnosed IN the action m the ar hegan
IN erumble In Ave or Az minutas there
was literally nothing Jeff Of Il but a visp OF
hair. the slrullJ And few AZ the 'iafeer
bones. noticed that one of the tibiae,
forgot II Il was the right or the left, had
been fractured and very badly set. Il must
have been quite An inch shorter than the
other. fs
. We'll. there was nothing more 70 find, and
now that the excitement was over, what
between the heat, the exertion and the
smell of mummy dust and spices, Tfelt more
dead than aliye.Tl NftFfk l9Fr
lam tired Of writing and the ship rolls.
This letter Of course goes overland. and /
Arm canning NV ,,long sea- - Int bone M he
IN london within tan davs after Won rst II
Then viii ten YOU OF nv pleasing e2peri-
ences in the coarse OF the ascent from the
tomb chamber. and OF how that prinre -of
rascais- All Baba and his thieves triad 10
friohten me INTO handing over the papyri
and how yyorsted them. Then. TOO. We
will Get The roIls decinhered erbect that
thev onlv contain the usuaI thing. couie. of
the Book OF the Dead. but there NAV be
something else in them, Needless 70 saw. I
ala not narrate this little adventure ia
Egypt. or / should have had ne BouIae Mu.
senrn people on NV track eood.bve-
uMadsb Fineesb. - AZ Ali Baba ALWAYS said
Tn are corr.e NV ir,ena tbe ,vr,,e, N tho
letter from, which 7 have nuo,ad arrfved In
london. ana on the verv nert dav wa naId
a visit 70 an acouaintauce well versed IN
bierog,vnSics and demotic writing with
what anxIety we watched him skiIlfully
damperipo o and unfolding one Of the rolls
and peerine through his gold-rimmcd
oiasses Mt the mysterious Characters NAV
well be Imagined ~
.Huui,, he. sald. ..ubatever 4. -. 1.
mot a couv OF The lBook on the De.ds NV
George. what's thisI CIe-Cleo-C Cleopstral /
Whv' INV dear airs. as am a living man
This is the history Of somebody who lived NJ
the days Of Cleopatral well. there's Sir
months work before me here-six nonths
at the very leastl' And in that joyful
prospect he fairly lost control Of himself,
and skipped about the room, shaking hands
with us at intervals, and saying: arH
translate-rll translate II IL IL kills me, and
we will publish IT; and, by the living
Osiris, it will drive every Ezyptologist in
Europe mad with envyl Oh, what q find
what a most glorious fndl''
And o you whose eyes shall fall upon
these pages, see, they have been trans
lated, aud they have been printed, and here
they lie before you-an undiscovered land
wherein you are free TO travell
Harmachis speaks to you from his forgot
ten tomb. The walls OF Time fall down,
and as at the lightning's leap a picture
from the past starts suddenly on your tiew,
framed in the gathered darkness Of the
ages.
He shows you those two Egypts that the
silent pyramids looked down upon long
centuries ago-the Egypt OF the Greek, the
Roman, and the Ptolemy, and that other
outworn Egypt Of the hierophant, hoary
with years, heavy with the legends Of