Produced by Greg Weeks, George Snoga, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PHARAOH'S BROKER BEING THE VERY REMARKABLE EXPERIENCES IN ANOTHER WORLD OF ISIDOR WERNER (WRITTEN BY HIMSELF) EDITED, ARRANGED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ELLSWORTH DOUGLASS [Device] LONDON C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED HENRIETTA STREET W.C. 1899 Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Obsolete spellings have been retained. The oe ligature is represented by [oe]. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION: ELUSIVE TRUTH 7 BOOK I. SECRETS OF SPACE CHAPTER I. DR. HERMANN ANDERWELT 19 II. THE GRAVITY PROJECTILE 27 III. STRUCTURE OF THE PROJECTILE 37 IV. WHAT IS ON MARS? 48 V. FINAL PREPARATIONS 57 VI. FAREWELL TO EARTH 67 VII. THE TERRORS OF LIGHT 81 VIII. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW 91 IX. TRICKS OF REFRACTION 99 X. THE TWILIGHT OF SPACE 108 XI. TELLING THE TIME BY GEOGRAPHY 117 XII. SPACE FEVER 126 XIII. THE MYSTERY OF A MINUS WEIGHT 141 BOOK II. OTHER WORLD LIFE I. WHY MARS GIVES A RED LIGHT 157 II. THE TERROR BIRDS 170 III. TWO OF US AGAINST THE ARMIES OF MARS 182 IV. THE STRANGE BRAVERY OF MISS BLANK 192 V. ZAPHNATH, RULER OF THE KEMI 204 VI. THE IRON MEN FROM THE BLUE STAR 220 VII. PARALLEL PLANETARY LIFE 240 VIII. A PLAGIARIST OF DREAMS 249 IX. GETTING INTO THE CORNER 260 X. HUMANITY ON PTAH 275 XI. REVOLUTIONIST AND EAVESDROPPER 283 XII. THE DOCTOR DISAPPEARS 292 XIII. THE REVELATION OF HOTEP 304 INTRODUCTION Elusive Truth It was the Chicago _Tribune_ of June 13th, 189-, which contained this paragraph under the head-line: "Big Broker Missing!"