Show HAD NO LIKING FOR MUMMIES servant or great writer did not share hla hobby alerre hotl the french novelist once obtained a new acquisition to his weird and wonderful collection ot egyptian mummies it was that of a youns princess with glided face al most as expressive under its mask as it must have been in life this mummy one of the best in bis col lection accentuated in his study the smell that creeps from a winding sheet when a mummy Is half un rolled hotl s grievance was that his servants would not move or touch his mummies under any circumstances only think he said not one ot my servants would touch this beaucl ful young woman they are so superstitious ious about the dead I 1 had to car rv her upstairs myself and would yoa believe me as I 1 reached the landing it suddenly flashed through my raland that I 1 was carrying a corpse I 1 seemed to feel the chill of the dead breast penetrate my own noticeable among the other em bahmed bodies of dead and gone egyptians in hotl a study was that of a little three year old girl who stared down with sightless eyes on her owner as he sat writing his romances and plas in the still watches of the night |