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

NTANFoRD MARVIN, wealthy manTse-
turer OF automobiles, has worn himself
49, out by overwork. His son Harry,
and his adopted daughter, Pauline, love
each other, but she wants two years OF
thrilling experiences seeing life before mar
rying. Her reason Is that abe Is ambitious
to be a writer. Old Mr.. Marvin asks TO see
what she has written. While Pauline and
Harry are In search Of a magazine contain
Ing her fret story, Mr.. Marvin opens tho
Continued from Last Sunday.
CHAPTER III.
Copyright, 1914, by the Star Company.
All Foreign Rights Reserved.
LID MR.. MARVTN's faculties re-
y turned with snap. There was the
library Just as it had been before
his peculiar seizure. His son Harry was
suumoning on the telephone Or. Stevens,
the heart specialist, and Pauline, his
adopted daughter, was on her knees'chahng
his hands and anxiously watching his race,
while Owen, the secretary, was pouring out
q dose OF his medicine But the peculiar
yellow light had gone. And what about the
mummy? II stood just as he had left 1t.
the lower half Of the case was in place, the
upper half was out revealing the loosened
DauuARbs ana just u 6liuipSS VA AiS WV
head One strand Of Jet black hair hung
down. All was Just as It was when the
little vial had fallen out
I'm all right, I'm all right" protested
Mr.. Marvin, somewhat testify, as he twisted
about In his chair to get a good view of
che mummy. Look out, Harry don't step
on that little bottle"
Harry looked down and picked up the
tiny vial which had fallen from the band
ages wrapped about the ancient form,
Smell OF It." his father ordered Harry
shifted It and remarked that 1t smelled
musty and passed 1t TO Pauline. The girl
carried 1t to her nostrils again aud again.
She looked perplexed.
We'll, what do you think It Is 7" asked
the old man.
WHY can't remember. but ought to
know I'm sure do know"
1.-THE devil you do" muttered her foster
father. What makes you think you ought
TO know"
why. Ii ia so familiar I'm certain I've
smelled 1t often before. Haven't p
Well, IL you have Folly, you are LOT
older than / am. older than anything In
this country, az old as the pyramids. That
bottle fell out of the mummy, and | can
assure you II has been there some three
or four thousand years. When | sme!led
OF that bottle it had a queer effect on me.
Il l
my fainting spells and was glad to get
back to tie chair. It's funny about that
mummy. / thought she came out and
talked 10 me-
"Why, father. what a horrible thingi"
sympathized Pauline.
'Not.horrible at all She was a beauty
and princess She was interested In your
picture, Polly, and she looked like you, too.
except, let's see-yes, her hair was black.
Jet black, like that one lock you see hang
Ing down"
"Oh," interrupted Pauline, II wish my
hair were black. and often dream that It
is, and that / am walking around in a
pretty. white pleated dress and my feet
are bare"
And q bracelet on your wr,st--your
right wrist7" questioned Marvin eagerly
81 don't remember" Pauline replied
thoughtfulIy.
"Weli<well see If you had one and also
whether / was dreaming or not" an
nounced che old man with half ashamed
look as he rose somewhat unsteadiy to his
feet. Harry and Pauline tried to keep him
quiet He brushed their warnings aside
and walked unsteadily to the mummy
Let's see its face" suggested Harry
carelessiy.
NO" said his father. Il have an idea
that this old but young lady would not care
to have US look at her. But there is one
thing must find out I want to know /;
she wears a bracelet Of linked scarabs on
her right wrist or not"
ALI Of this was rather a bore to Harry,
who lived intensely in the present had no
interest in Egypt, except that Pauline was
born and adopted as an orphan baby there,
and asked nothing of the future except
that II allow him to marry this obstinate
but fascinating little creature at the
earliest possible moment. The question
had been brought up half an hour before,
aud he wanted 1t settled at once. Harry
Slahkd they would decide about the mar
kAkA Instead Of fussing around with an