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diff --git a/58944-8.txt b/58944-0.txt index 17fe2ea..60e7290 100644 --- a/58944-8.txt +++ b/58944-0.txt @@ -1,32 +1,7 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Living Mummy, by Ambrose Pratt +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58944 *** -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license -Title: The Living Mummy - -Author: Ambrose Pratt - -Illustrator: Louis D. Fancher - -Release Date: February 23, 2019 [EBook #58944] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIVING MUMMY *** - - - - -Produced by Mary Glenn Krause, Martin Pettit and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) @@ -110,7 +85,7 @@ CHAPTER PAGE XVI. LADY HELEN PRESCRIBES FOR HER HUSBAND 145 - XVII. THE SÉANCE 155 + XVII. THE SÉANCE 155 XVIII. THE UNSEEN 173 @@ -644,7 +619,7 @@ Then she began to cry. I said nothing. It seemed one of those occasions wherein silence was golden. I tied Sir Robert to the cot and set to work. Half an hour later I found the bullet under his clavicle, and then dressed the wound and bound him up. He came out of the influence -of the anæsthetic in his sober senses; but he was so eager to tell me +of the anæsthetic in his sober senses; but he was so eager to tell me all his disappointment that I gave him a hypodermic dose of morphia, and he dropped asleep in the middle of a rabid diatribe against Arabs in general and our Arabs in particular. @@ -945,7 +920,7 @@ before--so long--so very long ago. I saw lights--the sound of chanting voices and of rushing waters filled my ears. I seemed to be assisting at a solemn ritual. Ghostly forces and dim spirit figures filled the cave. The air was thick with incense fumes. My reason rocked and swung. -Just in time I realised that I was becoming mysteriously anæsthetised. +Just in time I realised that I was becoming mysteriously anæsthetised. I held my breath and with a powerful effort leaped to the floor. Then I carefully blocked up the chisel hole with my kerchief and staggered into the open air. Very soon I was my own man again. Returning filled @@ -1458,7 +1433,7 @@ wooers," I murmured. "But I have no experience. Have you?" The poor girl was shivering with fear and too proud to admit it. I sought about for a pretext to comfort her and found one presently. -"Don't they join hands at a séance?" I inquired. +"Don't they join hands at a séance?" I inquired. "I--I--t-think so," said Miss Ottley. @@ -1910,7 +1885,7 @@ Perhaps he had found some treasure of which he had constituted himself the jealous guardian. I felt sure, at any rate, that he was mad. His actions had always been so peculiar and his speechlessness so baffling and astonishing and crassly unreasonable. But he or someone had killed -my donkey. I found the poor beast lying in a hollow, dead as Cæsar. A +my donkey. I found the poor beast lying in a hollow, dead as Cæsar. A knife had been employed, a long, sharp-pointed knife--perhaps a sword. It had searched out the creature's heart and pierced it. I made a hasty autopsy in order to be sure. The circumstance was most exasperating. It @@ -2310,7 +2285,7 @@ moment that he expected to live a thousand years." "Oh! I mean a spiritualist. He has a medium chap, he keeps in London--a rascally beggar who bleeds thousands a year out of him. They have -séances. The medium scamp pretends to go into a trance and tells him +séances. The medium scamp pretends to go into a trance and tells him all sorts of rubbish about the Nile kings and prophets and wizards and magicians and the elixir of life. It is dashed unpleasant for me, I can tell you. There's always some wild yarn going round the clubs. @@ -3119,7 +3094,7 @@ there water to drink and dates to eat. Next morning I took my bearings from the sun, and giving the river a wide berth I pressed on north for two days and nights on an empty stomach. Then I shot an ibis with my revolver in a reedy marsh and ate it raw. Next day I climbed into the -mountains and looked back on Assuan and Philæ. But it is not my purpose +mountains and looked back on Assuan and Philæ. But it is not my purpose to describe my wanderings minutely. It would take too long. Suffice it to say that I changed clothes with an Arab near Redesieh and entered Eonah dyed as a Nubian a week later, after crossing the river at El-Kab @@ -3192,7 +3167,7 @@ for my pains. But we understood each other, and our friendship bravely withstood the test of time and circumstance. I found him nursing an attack of splenitic rheumatism before a fire in his study, and we were still only in the middle of July. His man, Miller, had just broken -a Sévres vase, and Hubbard was telling Miller in a gentle, measured +a Sévres vase, and Hubbard was telling Miller in a gentle, measured way his views of clumsiness in serving-men. Miller--a meek, dog-like creature usually--stood before his master glowing but inarticulate with rage. His fists were clenched and his lips were drawn back from @@ -3303,7 +3278,7 @@ cries. And they kissed her hand. She gave their bouquets to the footman with an air of fascinating disdain. Their dejection was delightful. But she consoled them with a smile and advanced to us. Certainly she had changed. I had known her as a somewhat unconventional and piquant -débutante. She was now a brilliant siren, an accomplished coquette and +débutante. She was now a brilliant siren, an accomplished coquette and a woman of the world. Her tiny stature made her attractive, for she was perfectly proportioned and her costume ravishingly emphasised the petite and dainty grace of her figure. Her face was reminiscent of one @@ -3817,7 +3792,7 @@ and on that account he was willing to furnish every library in the English-speaking world with a free copy. Aware, however, that I was not a business man, he would conduct all the business arrangements himself. On receipt of the manuscript, therefore, he would forward -me a cheque for £1000 as an instalment in advance of my share of the +me a cheque for £1000 as an instalment in advance of my share of the profits--fifteen per cent. he proposed to allow me--and he wound up as follows: "Your acceptance of my offer will commit you to nothing as regards our chat of this morning. My good friend, Sir Robert Ottley, @@ -3828,7 +3803,7 @@ say so. Let me have an answer right away." I thought a good deal over this precious epistle, but in the end I did not see why I should not make a little money. I knew very well that under ordinary circumstances it would be impossible for me to -make £100, let alone a thousand, out of the Nile Monuments. But I felt +make £100, let alone a thousand, out of the Nile Monuments. But I felt little doubt that Mr. Coen had a plan to make even more--somehow or other. But I had done the man injustice--it was not money he was after. Reading the _Times_ two mornings later I came upon the following @@ -3839,7 +3814,7 @@ announcement: "We are informed that Mr. Louis Coen, F. R. E. S., has induced the well-known Egyptologist, Dr. Hugh Pinsent, to commit the - results of his recent archæological researches on the Nile to the + results of his recent archæological researches on the Nile to the enduring care of the printer's ink. Mr. Coen has purchased the rights in advance for a large sum of the projected volume, which it is said will take the form of an exhaustive treatise on the @@ -4374,7 +4349,7 @@ week." "So!" she said and shrugged her shoulders. "And are you quite engaged? Could you not come to me to-night? Your friend Captain Weldon comes, and some others. We are to have our fortunes told. Signor Navarro has -promised us a séance. Miss Ottley has arranged it. She tells me he is a +promised us a séance. Miss Ottley has arranged it. She tells me he is a truly marvellous clairvoyant, medium, et-cetera. Have you a curiosity to know your future? Do come! Dixon will be there." @@ -4383,7 +4358,7 @@ to know your future? Do come! Dixon will be there." I opened the door for her and she blew me a kiss from the stairs. I returned to my work, but it was very little I was able to do the rest of that afternoon. What could have induced Miss Ottley to arrange this -séance? Were her nerves giving way under the strain of Dr. Belleville's +séance? Were her nerves giving way under the strain of Dr. Belleville's threats? Did she really believe this rascal Navarro capable of predicting events? Was she becoming superstitious? These reflections profoundly disturbed me. @@ -4393,7 +4368,7 @@ profoundly disturbed me. Chapter XVII -The Séance +The Séance Navarro evidently belonged to the highest and most ingenious order @@ -5034,7 +5009,7 @@ not expect our mysterious assailant to return that night. But what of the morrow? I am not a believer in the supernatural or I must have set down the unseen marauder as a spirit. But I had felt and wrestled with the thing, and knew it for a man. I had heard the patter of its feet. -Moreover, the memory of the séance and Navarro's dramatic recitation +Moreover, the memory of the séance and Navarro's dramatic recitation supplied me with a sort of clue. What if Navarro had not been acting, but had really been clairvoyant? Who shall dare to define the limits of the possible? Was it more marvellous that he should have heard and seen @@ -5129,7 +5104,7 @@ pick-me-up; and he was hard at work polishing my boots--all this by way of apology. I swallowed some wine and allowed myself to unbend. I suggested a ride to work up an appetite for breakfast. He joyously agreed, so we dressed and went out. A gallop in the park made us as -jolly as a pair of sand boys. We had déjeuner at Verrey's, and then +jolly as a pair of sand boys. We had déjeuner at Verrey's, and then went to call on Miss Ottley. She was out, however, so I dragged my charge to an eye specialist in Harley Street. I pretended an eyeache and had my eyes thoroughly examined. The specialist could find nothing @@ -5490,7 +5465,7 @@ delight it is to ensnare and to deceive their former tyrants; whose estimate of motherhood is an avoidable and loathsome human incident; whose morality is a resolution to preserve their immorality from public criticism; whose faith is a shibboleth composed of superstitious -formulæ, and whose religion is occasionally to attend divine service in +formulæ, and whose religion is occasionally to attend divine service in some fashionable church arrayed in the latest thing in headgear and a chic French gown." @@ -5589,7 +5564,7 @@ vouchsafed me no sign of recognition. His younger brother--now the heir--was the only member of the family who extended the slightest token of civility. He was so manifestly delighted at the unlooked-for promotion of his prospects that I read in his warm hand-grip a secret -pæan of joy. He had been intended for that limbo of younger sons and +pæan of joy. He had been intended for that limbo of younger sons and blue-blooded incompetents, the bar. Happily, the inquest was soon over. I was only in the box five minutes, and a quarter-hour later the verdict was recorded: "Accidental death." @@ -6052,7 +6027,7 @@ murderer was, in all probability, the man who had had most occasion to desire his death--Belleville--my enemy and the enemy, although the lover, of the woman I loved; the wretch in whose power she was at that moment. He had warned Miss Ottley that unless she broke off -her engagement with Weldon her fiancé would die within the week. He +her engagement with Weldon her fiancé would die within the week. He had died--murdered in cold blood--on the evening of the seventh day. Belleville had been most terribly faithful to his awful promise. To the very letter he had kept his dreadful vow. And now--Miss Ottley @@ -6978,7 +6953,7 @@ peculiar pleasure in unbosoming to a helpless enemy." given me such mental pabulum." He closed one eye in a very vulgar manner, "Confess you expire with -curiosity to hear more of my beautiful fiancée--the woman you love!" +curiosity to hear more of my beautiful fiancée--the woman you love!" "The more readily," I responded, "because I know you'll be delighted to taunt me with the satisfaction of that same curiosity." @@ -8174,7 +8149,7 @@ sad position. Only a few weeks ago the gallant young officer to whom she had been engaged to be married, had come to an untimely end in a railway accident on the very eve of his wedding day. Then, a little later, the dark angel had deprived her of a loving and beloved father, -the great millionaire archæologist, whose recent operations on 'Change +the great millionaire archæologist, whose recent operations on 'Change had startled the world, and made of him the richest man in the United Kingdom. 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