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Ambrose Pratt. The Living Mummy
The Living Mummy
Table of Contents
Chapter I Concerning the Son of Hap
Chapter II A Patient of the Desert
Chapter III Two Lies
Chapter IV The Sarcophagus's Perfume
Chapter V The Shadow in the Cave
Chapter VI Enter Dr. Belleville
Chapter VII The One Goddess
Chapter VIII Ottley Shows His Hand
Chapter IX A Cool Defiance
Chapter X The Capture of the Coffin
Chapter XI Good-bye to the Nile
Chapter XII The Meeting
Chapter XIII Hubbard Is Jealous
Chapter XIV The Pushful Man
Chapter XV A Quaint Love Pact
Chapter XVI Lady Helen Prescribes for Her Husband
Chapter XVII The Séance
Chapter XVIII The Unseen
Chapter XIX The First Victim
Chapter XX Lady Helen's Medicine Operates
Chapter XXI Hubbard's Philosophy of Life
Chapter XXII The Dead Hand
Chapter XXIII I Set Out for the East
Chapter XXIV The Gin Is Sprung
Chapter XXV The Mummy Talks
Chapter XXVI A Pleasant Chat With a Murderer
Chapter XXVII Unbound
Chapter XXVIII The Struggle in the Chamber
Chapter XXIX Saved by fire
Chapter XXX The Last
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Ambrose Pratt
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Sir Robert woke about noon, and although a little feverish, I was quite satisfied with his progress. After eating a dish of what he feelingly described as "muck" he went to sleep again. I prepared a second meal and brought it on a box to where Miss Ottley still lay sleeping. Then I sat down and coughed. Her eyes opened at once and she looked at me. It is marvellous what a woman's glance can do. I became instantly conscious of a dirty face, unkempt hair, and a nine-weeks' growth of beard. In order to conceal my appreciation of my ugliness I grinned.
"Ugh!" murmured Miss Ottley, and she got up.
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