The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-19
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III tiisSS ALlek Ir1FEuEN Or al NUN.
tY8essEz FRoM EGYPT.
q saueer sequence OF Fats,Iitiess NJ and
Hard Luck Expert ences That s4tp-
peared 70 1se Unhnpns aLeEn sIes %
$ES Those; interest ed In les Cuatosts.
IN a corner OF tie first Egyptian
a room ar the British museum. behind
II the crouching body OF the prehistoric
chief who lived before there were
Epharaohs in Egypt or pyramids on the
II Nile, stands a woman nodded from
some ancient form OF cardboard. Sheis
merely n she'll. the cover of Il mummy
case. Her hands are crossed above
\ her breast, and her dark eyes stare
forward into vacancy.
According TO the catalogues she s
i No 22512,y predetermined royal per.
sonage and a priestess Of the College
or Amen RI. She lived IN the mighty
city of Thebes some LOCO years before
4 Christ. NJ
And about this same conn cover
there hangs as terrible q story as ever
an Edgar Allan Foe Ora Baizac ora
nation.
IF YOU QUESTION the attendants in the
first Egyptian room, they will shake
their heads md saw nothing But
There is d famous professor in tho
museum who knows TINT the facts arc.
true. though whether they be a coincl.
deuce or a manifestation of supcr1iat.
ural power who can say? He says: g
For three: months L have been gath.
erine the tangled threads OF evidence
L have now5in 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 I have been requested to,
suppress The names.
bout the middle of the sixties Of
the last century n party OF five friends
took ship in a dahabeah for q trip up.
the Nile. They Travelled to Luxor on
their way to the second cataract, and
stayed there % explore the ruins of
the great and wonderful city of Thebes,
with its avenues of sphinxcs md rams,
its va st hall OF columns and its temple
to Amen Ra. which is unequaled on
earth In the sublinity OF its ruined
maeniflcence.
zone night an Arab sent by Musta.
pha Aga came to one of their number
Mr.. D., as We may call him, saying
that he had lust found "a mummy case
of unusual beauty. what became Of
the mummy the man did not explain
The next morning Mr.. D.. bought the
case. Both he and his companions
were Impressed by its remarkable
beauty and by the curious face OF the
woma n portrayed. face that was
filed With a cold ualinancys of sex.|
preston unpleasant to witness.
..They had agreed that. being all
interested in E@yptolor they. Should
apportion their finds BY lot.and SO,
though Mr.. " had been the cause ofi|
its discovers. he lost the mummy co or.
which passed TO "a friend. whom wi.
will call SIrsyY:
..It va on. their return Journey that
the series Of rniSfortl1nes commenced.
Mr.. DIS servant was binding him
e11n. when without visible c:lrse It ex.
pIoded file charge lodging in his arm.
which had Is he pI,l1311tateel i second
died n noyorty- within tbef wear. n |
third was silot. while Nfr.yy tie own.
err of The mummy ca$e. discovered on
his arrival n cairo TINT ne mad lost a
lorra .r,art of his fort11ne lie fed5 soon
pfterward Tho 1,riastessof Amen m
bnd sirnffied her tIisn1easura IN q .ysry
Convincing mn,ner.