The Mummy and Miss Nitocris

Mummy and Miss Nitocris, by
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Supernatural & Occult Fiction
This is a volume in the Arno Press collection
Supernatural & Occult Fiction
Advisory Editors
R. Reginald Douglas Menville
See last pages of this volume for a complete list of titles.

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
See last pages of this volume for titles.
Manufactured in the United States of America

~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
[Illustration]
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, and
Breadth, and Thickness, there is another World, or State of Existence,
consisting of these and another dimension of which only those beings
who are privileged to enter or dwell in it can have any conception. Now,
if this postulate be granted, it follows that a dweller in this State would
be freed from those conditions of Time and Space which bind those
beings who are confined within the limits of Tri-Dimensional Space, or
Existence. For example, he would be able to make himself visible or

invisible to us at will by entering into or withdrawing himself from this
State, and returning into that of Four Dimensions, whither our eyes
could not follow him--even though he might be close to us in our sense
of nearness. Moreover, he could be in two or more places at once, and
cause two bodies to occupy the same space--which to us is
inconceivable. Stranger still, he might be both alive and dead at the
same time--since Past, Present, and Future would be all one to him; the
world without beginning or end ...--From the "Geometrical
Possibilities," 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

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.
"Look!" she continued. "I am almost the same height. Just a little taller,
perhaps, but you see her hair is nearly as fair as mine.