The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-04

first Egyptian room they will shake their heads and say nothing. But there is a famous professor in the museum who knows that the facts are true, though whether they be coincidence or manifestation of supernatural power who can say? There is a second professor of he more exact sciences and traveller of distinction who are equal ly well informed. .-=s -..
 For three months I have been gath lering the tangled threads of evidence. I have now in my possession proofs of the identity of all those who suffered from the anger of the priestess of Amen Ra. But for the sake of friends and relatives have been requested to suppress the names.
 About the middle of the'6Os a party of five friends took ship in a dahabeah for trip up the Nile. They travelled to Luxor on their way to the Second Cata- raet, and stayed there to explore the ruins of the great and wonderful city of Thebes, with it's avenues of sphinxes and rams, its vast hall ofcolumns and i its temple to Amen Ra, which is un- equalled on earth in the sublimity of it's
 
 ruined magnifcence.
 Lady Duff Gordon entertained the party at dinner while the consul, Mustapha Aga, held a strange dance of the Gaiyazi ladies of Luxor. There were salutes and illuminations to mark the arrival of the guests.
 One night an Arab sent by Musta- pha Aga came to one of their number, MT. D., as we may call him, saying that he had just found a mummy case of unusual beauty. What became of the mummy the man did not explain. The next morning MT. D. bought the case. Both he and his companions were impressed by it's remarkable beau ty and by the curious face of the wo- man portrayed, a face that was filled with a cold malignaney of expression Unpleasant to witness.
 They had agreed that all being ir- terested in Egyptology. they should ap- portion their finds by lot, and so, though MT. D. had been the cause of it's discovery, he lost the mummy cover, which passed to a friend, whom we will call MT. ".
 4 Ethe' series of misfortunes commenced MT. DIS servant was handing him a gun, when without visible cause it ex- lploded, the charge lodging in his arm, which had to be amputated; a second died in poverty within the year; third Twas shot, while MT. w, the owner of the mummy case, discovered on his ar rival in Cairo that he had lost large Ipart of his fortune. He died soon af- terward. The priestess of Amen Ra | had signified her displeasure in a very convincing manner.
 From the date it was shipped on board the steamer, MT. D. lost sight of the mummy case for several years. He did not at the time in any way associ- late the misfortunes that had occurred to the party with it's discovery, but when he next heard of it and had full information of the disasters which had been subsequently, associated with its possession, he began to suspect that it was not merely chance, not merely a coincidence, that had brought So sinis. ter a fate on all who had dealings with the priestess of Amen Ra.
 .'On the arrival of the casein England 1t was given by it's owner, MT. w., to a married sister living near London. From the day the case entered the house misfortune followed misfortune The family suffered large losses, and the end came with painful troubles which need not be specified.
 "The lady, while in possession of the case, received one day a visit from Madame Blavatsky. The great theoso- phist became very greatly disturbed on entering the room, and after few min utes conversation told her hostess that there was something in her house pos sessed of a most malignant influence. She asked to be allowed to search the house. and on discovering the coffin lid appealed to her hostess to send away an object which she described as the utmost danger. Her hostess, however, refused, laughing at what she imag- ined to be an example of foolish super Istition.
 Sometime afterward the lady sent the case to a well known photographer lin Baker street Within a week the chief of the firm came down to this lady's house in a state of great excite- ment. He had, he said, photographed