The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-07-21

Raymond Owen, his rascalIy private seere-
tary, helps lift of the front OF the case, but
leaves old Mr.. Marvin to remove the mum
mys bandageE alone, Marvin during a
fainting spoil, sees the hslF-exposed mum
my come to life, step out Of her case, take
bracelet from her wrist and try 20 force
II into his nerveess grasp while Far lips
reveal a strange message from the remote
past
Gid mummy.
My son, / venture to say that yoLwould
have been interested in this youngtwoma1
had you met her"
Possibly" the youth admitted with a
slight yawn.
YES" continued his father, busily
searching for the mummy's right wrist.
she was probably what you would call o
peach"
she may have been a peach in her day"
thought Harry, "but to-day she's q dried
apricot"
The elder Marvin's searching fingers en-
couutered a hard object It proved to be
a scarab, or sacred Egyptian beetle, carved
in blackstone.
Did you ever dream about that" asked
Harry, channgly.
YES. have" replied Pauline. Both men
~ dreamed that l was very sick and
going to die, and an old man with a long,
thin beard came in, He gave me stone
beetle like that Then il seems to mo
they put it right on my chest and they
said-Iets see what did they do that forT
/ think 1t was TO cure me OF something
the matter with my heart
polly, said Mr., Marvin, Il never knew
you had dreams like this. But are syou
p31 NJ
Wasn't II for some other reason2'
Pauline thought a moment. while Harry
lit a cigarette and HIS father worked mis-
fingers down toward the mummY's right
wrist
NO" said Pauline, 81 remember now. II
wasn't TO cure 1t at all. II was to make 1t
keep quiet"
"IIo! ho!" laughed Harry, 81 never
knew Of any one making It nutter much.
guess that was no dream.
Harrv's father si,enced him with "a fm-
patient gesture and turned to Pauline, who
was watching the wind make cats paws on
the polished surface Of the Hudson River.
Go on girl go on. This is remarkable.
I have read Of this custom in the Egyptian
Book Of the Dead Why did they want to
keep your heart quiet"
"Thev said" continued Pauline drcam!ly,
that after | died my spirit was to be called
before somebody - God I guess who
would Judge whether l was good enough for
Heaven or not That stone beetle was
placed on my heart to make it keep silent
and not tell anything wicked l might have
done in life, Aren't dreams crazy things?
Say, Harry, there goes hydroplane.'
The two young people hung out the open
window The old man was absorbed, too,
He had at last worked his fingers along the
entire length OF the mummys right wrist
It was dry and hard as any mummy he had
ever seen, but It bore neither bracelet nor
any ornament whatever
well" he said, reluctantly, ut was all
dream interesting but not important. Like
Polly's dream, 1t was just the echo OF some
thing I have read or seen"
"Oh pshaw! what are dreame, anyway
nuftpred Harry. with impotence.
Dreams" said Pauline, auth0rlt0tively,
dreams are the bubbles which rise to the
surface OF the mind when it cools down In
sleep"
you and father are through talking about
mnmmtes and dreams | wish You would
consider something that am interested in.
I'd like to know how soon YOU are going to
marry me?'
where did you get that definition 81
dreams. Polly?" asked the old man
From my story" said Pauline, proudly
Roth men at once remembered that she
had gone to find the magazine aud show
them her first story They eagerly de
handed 70 see it.
Pauline picked up the Cosmopolitan from
the floor She had dropped It in her agtta
ton at finding her foster father had tainted
Sure enough there Il was;
FIRE ON AN OCEAN LINER,
BY Pauline Marvin,
It was not the biggest feature by any
means but It was quite little story and
there were several big and stirring Illus
trations Both men begged her to read 1t