The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
INSTALMENT.

case OF mummy Just arrived from Egypt
Raymond Owen, his rascalIy private secre-
tary. heips lift or the front Of the case, but
leaves old Mr.. Marvin to remove the mum
my's bandagss alone. Marvin during a
fAintin0 spell, sees the haif-exposed mum
my come to life, stop out Of her case, take
bracelet from her wrist and try to force
II into HE nerveless grasp, while her lips
reveal strange message from the remote
past.
old mummy.
MY son. venture to say that you would
have been interested in this young woman
had you met her."
Possibly" the youth admitted with
slight yawn.
YES" continued his father. busily
searching for the mummy's right wrist,
she was probably what you would call
peach"
"she may have been . peach in her day"
thought Harry. but to-day she's a dried
apricot"
The elder Marvin's searching fingers en-
countered hard object. It proved to be
in blackstone
did you ever dream about that7" asked
Harry. chaningly
Yes, have" replied Pauline. Both men
looked at her to see II she were serious.
Il dreamed that I was very sick and
going to die. and an old man with q long.
thin beard came in He gave me a stone
beetle like that Then 1t seems to me
they put 1t right on my chest and they
said-let's SEQ. what did they do that for?
/ think it was to cure mo OF something
the matter with my heart
Polly, said Mr.. Marvin. II mover know
you had dreams like this. But arc you
sure they said it would cure your heart:
Wasn't It for some other reason?"
Pauline thought a moment while Harry
lit a cigarette and his father worked his
fingers down toward the mummy's right
wrist
wasn't to cure 1t at all. 1t was to make 1t
'Ho! ho!" laughed Harry. II never
knew Of any one making It autter much
guess that was no dream
Harry's father sflenced him with m i'm
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
Keen your heart quiet?
They said" continued Pauline, dreamily
that after I died my spirit was to be called
before somebody = Coo I guess who
would Judge whether was good enough for
Heaven or not. That stone beetle was
placed on my heart to make 1t keep silent
and not tell anything wicked might have
done In life Aren't dreams crazy things?
say, > 1eFc SOeS u uyuIOpAnuC
The two Young people hung out the oper
window. The old man was absorbed, too
He had at last worked his fingers along tn
entire length Of the mummys right wrist
1t was dry and hard as any mummy he had
ever seen, but 1t bore neither bracelet nor
any ornament whatever.
WELL" he said reluctantly. 1T was al a
dream, interesting but not important Like
Polly's dream. 1t was Just the echo OF some
thing have read or SEEN.
"Oh pShaw! what are dreams. anyway!
muttered Harry. with impatience.
Dreams" said Pauline, authoritat1vely
dreams are the bubbles which rise to the
surface OF the mind when 1t cools down in
Sleep"
Vow" observed Harry. quietly, "whe''
you and father are through talking abou
mummies and dreams I Wish you woui
consider something that am interested In
ia like to know how soon you are going
marry me"
where did you get chat definition .
dreams, Polly?" asked the old man.
From my story" said Pauline proudly
Both men at once remembered That shs
had gone to ind the magazine and shor
them her first story. They eagerly de
mended to see It
Pauline picked up the Cosmopolitan froo
the aoor She had dropped II In her agitx
tion ct finding her foster father had limited
sure enough, there it, was:
FIRE ON AN OCEAN LINER
~ Pauline Marvin.
II was MOI the bigsest feature ~ any
means. but It wa quite Q little story. and
there wefo sevef1ls big ana stirring Illus
trati0nA Both MN heGtad hee to read Z