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  Supernatural & Occult Fiction

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  Supernatural & Occult Fiction

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  THE MUMMY AND MISS NITOCRIS

  _A PHANTASY OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION_

  GEORGE GRIFFITH

  ARNO PRESS A New York Times Company 1976

  Editorial Supervision: MARIE STARECK

  Reprint Edition 1976 by Arno Press Inc.

  Reprinted from a copy in The Library of the University of California, Riverside

  SUPERNATURAL AND OCCULT FICTION

  ISBN for complete set: O-405-08107-3

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  ~Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data~ Griffith, George Chetwynd. The mummy and Miss Nitocris.

  (Supernatural and occult fiction) Reprint of the 1906? ed. published by T. W. Laurie, London.

  I. Title. II. Series. PZ3.G88Mu7 [PR4728.083] 823'.8 75-46273 ISBN 0-405-08131-6

  THE MUMMY AND MISS NITOCRIS

 

  _A PHANTASY OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION_

  BY

  GEORGE GRIFFITH

  AUTHOR OF "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION," "A HONEYMOON IN SPACE," "AN ISLAND LOVE STORY," "A MAYFAIR MAGICIAN," ETC., ETC.

  T. WERNER LAURIE CLIFFORD'S INN, FLEET STREET LONDON

  FOREWORD

  Certain it should be that, beyond and about this World of Length, andBreadth, and Thickness, there is another World, or State of Existence,consisting of these and another dimension of which only those beings whoare privileged to enter or dwell in it can have any conception. Now, ifthis postulate be granted, it follows that a dweller in this State wouldbe freed from those conditions of Time and Space which bind those beingswho are confined within the limits of Tri-Dimensional Space, orExistence. For example, he would be able to make himself visible orinvisible to us at will by entering into or withdrawing himself fromthis State, and returning into that of Four Dimensions, whither our eyescould not follow him--even though he might be close to us in our senseof nearness. Moreover, he could be in two or more places at once, andcause two bodies to occupy the same space--which to us isinconceivable. Stranger still, he might be both alive and dead at thesame time--since Past, Present, and Future would be all one to him; theworld without beginning or end ...--From the "GeometricalPossibilities," of Abd'el Kasir, of Cordoba, circa. 1050 A.D.

  CONTENTS

  CHAP. PAGE

  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