"What has that to do with Joseph? We are not on Earth, but on Mars. Have you been dreaming? Zaphnath is---- But, by the way, Joseph's Egyptian name was Zaphnath-paaneah, meaning a revealer of secrets! When I heard that name this morning, I thought it was strangely familiar. Pharaoh called him that when he appointed him ruler, because he had interpreted his dream," I said, just realizing the very peculiar coincidence. "You are as good as a Bible!" cried the doctor. "Perhaps you can also remember by which of Jacob's wives Joseph was born?" "Of course I can. He was the first son of Rachel, the wife whom Jacob really loved, and worked fourteen years to secure." "But how could he have ten older brothers, if he was Rachel's first son?" he demanded, a little perplexed. "They were all the sons of her sister Leah and her handmaidens. Rachel was barren all her life until Joseph was born," I explained. "And Zaphnath said this morning that his mother was barren all the years of her life that the Blue Star wandered. He also called himself revealer of God's hidden things." "Yes; and it struck me as peculiar at the time that he said of '_God's_' not of '_the gods'_,'" I reflected. "Evidently he thinks there is but one God. The whole matter is altogether peculiar." "Here are the facts," replied the doctor. "Listen to them attentively. We have dropped down into a civilization here upon Mars which coincides in every important particular with that of the Ancient Egyptians on Earth. They are great builders, erecters of monuments, raisers of grain, polygamists, and they now have a young Hebrew ruler, corresponding in every important respect with Joseph. We chance to have arrived during the seventh year of plenty of Joseph's rule. Grain abounds; the soil brings it forth 'by handfuls.' It is, 'as the sand of the sea, very much,' and the Pharaoh, probably at the suggestion of his young ruler, is storing it up----" "By all the Patriarchs!" I interrupted. "They are running a wheat corner, and I didn't know it! Go on, go on!" "These are all very singular coincidences with a history which was enacted many thousands of years ago on Earth. Now, how can you explain their strange recurrence here?" he queried. "How should I know? I haven't been lying awake! How do you explain them?" I asked, full of interest.