Show HAD NO LIKING FOR MUMMIES servants of greit great writer did not share his hobby pierre lott the french novelist once obtained a now new acquisition to his weird and wonderful collection of egyptian mummies it was that of a young princess with gilded face almost as expressive under its mask as it must have been in life this mummy one of th the best la in his collection accentuated in his study tho the smell that creeps from a winding sheet when a mummy is half tin lin rolled lotts grievance was that its his servants would not move or touch his mummies under any circumstances only think he sald said not one ot of my servants would touch this beautiful young woman they are so superstitious ious about the dead I 1 bad to carry her upstairs mys myself elf and would yui yoi believe me as I 1 reached the landing it suddenly flashed through my alad that I 1 was carrying a corpse I 1 seemed to feel the chill of tho the dead breast penetrate my own noticeable among the other em bahmed bodies of dead and gone egyptians in lotts study was that of i a little three year old girl who stared down with sightless eyes on her owner as he sat writing his romances and plays in the still watches of the night |