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CHAPTER II BACK TO THE PAST The City of a Hundred Kings, vast and sombre, stretched away into the dim, soft distance of the moonlit night to right and left and far behind him. CHAPTER TWO BACK TO THE PAST THE CITY OF A HUNDRED KINGS VAST AND SOMBRE STRETCHED AWAY INTO THE DIM SOFT DISTANCE OF THE MOONLIGHT NIGHT TO THE RIGHT AND LEFT AND FAR BEHIND HIM
ut almost abnormally active, and yet the current of his thoughts appeared to be turned backward instead of forward. The things of his own life, the life that he was then living, seemed to drift behind him. The facts which he had learned in his long and minute study of Egyptian history came up in his mind, no longer as facts learned from books and monuments, wall-paintings, and hieroglyphics, but as living entities. He seemed to know, not by memory, but of immediate knowledge. It was the difference between the reading of the story, say, of a battle, and actually taking part in it. He got into bed, and turned over on his right side, saying: "Well, this is all very extraordinary. I wonder what it all means? Thank goodness, I am sleepy enough, and sleep is the best of all medicines. I should not wonder if I were to dream of Memphis again to-night. A wonderfully beautiful mummy that, quite unique--and Nitocris, too. Good-night, Nitocris, my royal mistress that might have been! Good-night!"   CHAPTER TWO OF THE MUMMY IN MISS NIDOCRAUS BY GEORGE GRIFFITH THIS LIPPER BOXY CORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN COURTING BY JAMES LEAN 
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