Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-23
The EnthraIing Pathe Motion Picture
Novel.
CHAPTER l..
THE PERILS OF PAULINE.

TIME handsome check which Paul
inc received for her story in
The Cosmopolitan Magazine,
and the Egyptian mummy which her
multi millionaire foster father added
to his collection of curiosties, formed
the first cause" which set the eX-
traordinary affair in motion-as you
VIII see.
Fate had already rendered the gem
eral conditions faVora BILE In acquir-
Ing his millions, old Stanford Marvin
president of the Marvin Motors Com
pany. had also acquired prema ture
age and a dangerous weakness of the
heart, Any sudden shock would be
likely to end his earthly career
Further, the one man whom old
Marvin implicitly trusted-Raymond
owen, his confidential secretary-had
become an undiscovered rascal and
morphine fiend, deep in the tolls of an
/ ingenious blackmailer named Mont
gomery Hicks. And both Of them
knew how substantially the secretary
was remembered" in his employers
will
Further still, young Harry Marvin
was so desperately in love with his
foster sister Pauline. that he could
think of nothing but immediate mar
riage-and to this old Marvin had no
objection whatever But Pauline had
a very decided objection to being
married in this off hand fashion.
Pauline, you love Harry. don't
you?' said the old man--it was on the
day that the mummy case was deliv-
cred and placed in the library of the
magnificent Marvin mansion on the
Hudson, and when the motor mag
Mates weak heart was giving him
fresh and significant warnings
Yes, father" the girl answered.
Perhaps some time l shall marry
Harry, but not for year or two"
Pressed for particulars, then out
came Paulines secret--the check for
heT first magazine story, her literary
aspirations, her desire to travel and
see llfe' first A husband would be
"out of the picture" utterly.
That was the way The Cosmopoli-
tan check worked
The Egyptian mummy part was
ready to enter the conspiracy. The
association OF n mummy with Paul
ines affairs was not so remote as II
would have been in the case of most
girls. Pauline's mother was a native
Egyptian hurried TO an Englishman
They had been drowned in an acct
dent on the River Nile during one Of
old MarNins visits to that country,
and the man OF millions had imme-
dtately adopted the engaging little
orphan
uable to make any reasonable OBJ
lection to Paulines plans for year
or two OF independence. old Marvin
tottered into the library and shut
himself in with the mummy, From
inscriptions on the case he believed
that Il contained what was once an
Egyptian Princess. He pried of the
! lid and removed the centuries old
wrappings from the mummifed head,
4 curiously carved vial OF green
| crystal fell TO the floor, the stopper
came out, a visible vapor rose. The
pungent odor instantly deprived the
/ old man Of power TO speak or move.
CHAPTER II.
Instead OF a wizened mummy. old
! Marvin saw q lovely young woman
| startlingly resembling Pauline free
| herself from the mummy wrappings
and step out OF the case. But. whereas
! Pauline was OF the blonde type, the
/ hair Of this animated mummy was
black She stretched out n fair arm
| toward the old man. on one wrist he
! saw a bracelet OF linked scarabs.
Then she pointed. with evident de-
| light To a wall portrait OF Pauline,
| and from II TO herself, as though
! calling attention 20 the resemblance.
| Marvin, from the expression on her
! face. thought that he must have
! nodded assent
suddenly owen, the secretary. en-
tered the room and placed the old
/ man more comfortably In his chair
/ To the magnate's surprise owen
walked out without appearing to no.
+, ticc the presence OF the revivitied
( mummy She however. saw the sec
rotary and her movements became
more hurried She took from the
mummy case a roll OF papyrus and
/ unrolled It before the old mans eyes
! I, WIS covered with hieroglyphics
/ suddenly she fell on her knees before
/ Marvin and spoke softly in his ear
/ somehow the meaning OF the words
entered the old mans mind, He had
received his secret
Then, at the sound 81 voices in the
/ nall. the strange creature quickly re-
red herself in the case and gath
cred up about her the mummy band