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help 1)116111." A shrug of the shoulders said No! Becoming
alarmed, I exclaimed with strong emphasis, " G-o down after
ihemr'' They stood mute and stolid as statues. Impulsively
taking all the silver from my pocket, — a precious
httle, — and giving it to the leader, I repeated, '^ Go to the
rescue "
! Down they went. Alone now upon the Pyramid!
what a moment ! But here the whole party comes ; Dr.
Dunn unconsciously entranced, and the Arabs, all excited,
frightened at his " fits." The mystery was solved. Michael
O'Brien, the controlling spirit, said, —
" Faith, Jammie, I saw these beastly fellows pulling away at the madeum,
and I thought I would just lind a hand."
Well, you probably did more hurt than good.
" More hurt than good ! and Ls that the way you talk to a fine Irish
jintleman? "
But you alarmed me : what did you entrance him for?
" Sure, and don't I understand my own business? and don't I want to
see the round towers of ould Ireland ? '
These are not the round towers of Ireland.
"Well, didn't I'knovi that? These are the pyramids, and I wanted
to see 'em, that I might compare them with those round towers of my
native country, that puzzle you and everybody else. But I must out of
this, for here's one of those old long-haired spirits, who lived a while after
this pyramid was built. He wants to talk to you. The top of the
morning to you, Jammie! "
A change ; owing to inharmonious conditions, the entrancement
is spasmodic. How the Arabs stare ! It is difficult to
keep them at a distance.
But listen : another spirit has taken possession. What
what a deep-toned voice —
!
dignity in the attitude ! . and
"Traveler, you stand now upon the summit of one of the world's
wonders, — a mountain of stone rising from trackless sands. I once
lived under these skies, vestured in a mortal body. The same majestic
river roUed through the valley; but winds, storms, shifting sands, and
maddened convulsions, have changed all else. This pyi-amid, upon
which I often gazed, was even then more a matter of tradition than history.
It must have received its final cap-stone over ten thousand years
since. Om* time was measured by ruling dynasties. My years on earth