I. INTRODUCES THE MUMMY 1 II. BACK TO THE PAST 15 III. THE DEATH-BRIDAL OF NITOCRIS 27 IV. THIEVES IN THE NIGHT 36 V. ACROSS THE THRESHOLD 47 VI. THE LAW OF SELECTION 60 VII. MOSTLY POSSIBILITIES 70 VIII. MISS BRENDA ARRIVES, AND PHADRIG THE EGYPTIAN PROPHESIES 79 IX. "THE WILDERNESS," WIMBLEDON COMMON 95 X. THE STAGE FILLS 101 XI. THE MARVELS OF PHADRIG 115 XII. CONTROVERSY AND CONFIDENCES 138 XIII. OVER THE TEA AND THE TOAST 157 XIV. "SUPPOSED IMPOSSIBILITIES" 164 XV. THE ADVANCEMENT OF NITOCRIS--THE RESOLVE OF OSCAROVITCH 176 XVI. THE MYSTERY OF PRINCE ZASTROW 185 XVII. M. NICOL HENDRY 199 XVIII. MURDER BY SUGGESTION 210 XIX. THE HORUS STONE 220 XX. THROUGH THE CENTURIES 237 XXI. WHAT HAPPENED AT TRELITZ 251 XXII. A TRIP ON THE SOUND 260 XXIII. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PROFESSOR 274 XXIV. THE LUST THAT WAS--AND IS 281 XXV. THE PASSING OF PHADRIG 290 XXVI. CAPTAIN MERILL'S COMMISSION 304 XXVII. THE BRIDAL OF OSCAROVITCH 307 EPILOGUE 312 THE MUMMY AND MISS NITOCRIS CHAPTER I INTRODUCES THE MUMMY "Oh, what a perfectly lovely mummy! Just fancy!--the poor thing--dead how many years? Something like five thousand, isn't it? And doesn't she look just like me! I mean, wouldn't she, if we had both been dead as long?" As she said this, Miss Nitocris Marmion, the golden-haired, black-eyed daughter of one of the most celebrated mathematicians and physicists in Europe, stood herself up beside the mummy-case which her father had received that morning from Memphis.