"The secret of the egyptian mummy" "The path to Dartmoor castle please?" "What do you want?" "Go to the Castle Dartmoor." "What are you doing there?" "I have to be there before dark." "You can not go wrong, follow the coast until you see the castle." "It will take you one hour of riding." "You're not afraid?" "Some say they're courageous and yet they make a detour to avoid the castle." "Really?" "Why?" "Looks like you're interested, you would not be the police?" "I am an Egyptologist." "I am interested in mummies, meaning Egyptian coffins." "And if I am not mistaken, the Earl of Dartmoor possesses a few." "I do not understand." "I only know what some people say about these girls who have disappeared in recent months." "That girl that you see there lost her mind visiting the castle." "As I say," "I do not know how and I did not know her before she got here." "It's been two months, and nobody knows who she is." "The only thing I understood is that she fled from the castle when the Dartmoor girl died." "When she's being asked she has the look of an innocent and says nothing." "Often at the beginning, she cried all the time." "Suddenly she began to scream." "Now she does not cry even more." "Someone here?" "I'm John." "To serve you." "Good evening." "My name is James Barton," "I am an Egyptologist." "The door was open and ..." "You lie!" "You are not Egyptologist." "You are the police, do not deny." "I was expecting you." " But I ..." " Why do you continue to pretend?" "I have the power to read in your mind and with only one move I could turn you into statue and thus put an end to your existence." "You do not believe me?" "Look." "Do not move at all." "How do you do?" "I traveled a lot and" "I am imbued with occult knowledges totally forgotten nowadays." "You are a messenger of fate." "And I'll tell you everything." "Because you are in my power and tomorrow I will decide your fate." "To explain the disappearances which took place in the area we must go back in time." "It all started one afternoon two months ago." "I had an egyptian sarcophagus purchased in the Valley of the Kings brought to my home." "A sarcophagus of rare beauty." "That same night, driven by curiosity and thirst for knowledge which animates all of us," "I sent for my servants and assisted by the faithful John," "I opened the sarcophagus." "What was my surprise to discover that the body was not surrounded by traditional funeral strips." "He laid inside in perfect condition." "I also discovered the most mysterious manuscript I've ever seen." "It took some time to decipher the hieroglyphics." "But the story soon became clear, the mummy was that of the rogue son of a great priest." "He had been sentenced to death and following the custom he had his tongue cut." "The father wanted his son to avoid the supreme punishment." "Having immersed the body in catalepsy embalming was to suspend indefinitely vital functions." "In a sense a kind of hibernation." "For this purpose they did not strip his viscera as was the rule and thanks to a special balm they could keep him intact." "Followed some philosophical considerations about the long stay of the soul in limbo and the possible return to life in a world with increased knowledge, millennia after burial." "It was logical to imagine that possible if I could find a way to revive the body." "I decided to find out." "After reading again Mesmer and his treatise and associating it to the work of Galvani," ""De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius"," "I remembered an old Indian legend" "Where it was stated that melting copper with metal from the Yellow Country freed the vital fluid." "I quickly realized what it was." "Metal from the Yellow Country was zinc." "China and India were the only countries possessing zinc mines in antiquity." "Its merging with copper is known to us as the voltaic pile." "I had an electrical engine more powerful than a simple battery." "So I wanted to try it the same evening." "Aided by my servant" "I carried the machine to my laboratory." "Scalpel." "Bring a jug of milk." "I then realized that this body needed new blood to fulfill its arteries and go back to life." "The cruel dilemma began." "But science quickly erased my humanitarian scruples." "I gave the order to my servant to go out immediately and to bring me the first living being he could find." "Hoe lovers!" "He's coming." "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "He will live." "I go to bed, wake me at dawn." "Open, open!" "Let me out." "Help!" "The Egyptian only had to reach out his arm to submit my servant to his will through a strange hypnotic power from which he could never be freed." "Count." "Come to the lab!" "The Egyptians tried to hypnotize me but I could neutralize his influence." "However my servant obeyed blindly." "If you need help, we are at your disposal." "Do not worry Peter." "Nobody disappears like that without leaving some trace." "See you soon." "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Let me go, please!" "Begone!" "Get off me! The sailor had identified her attacker." "The discovery of a passage around the castle confirmed his suspicions." "The Egyptian stood before me reveling in my misery." "Driven by the vital necessity which forced him to kill to survive he returned to his abhorrent practices." "Let me go, brutes!" "John, stop him!" "My life had become a living hell." "To survive the Egyptian had a daily need of new victims." "No, let me go." "Let me go, brute!" "Advance." "Drop that!" "Walk." "John, don't let him do that!" "Hello John." "Why the long face?" "Don't you remember little Lucy?" "Have I I changed so much in six months?" "John." "Tell Dad that I fled from Aunt Elizabeth I because I was bored there." "Also tell him that my friend Anne Wilbury will be our guest for a few days." "Lucy," "Miss Lucy." "I do not understand his attitude." "And where are the servants?" "John worries me." "I had never seen him like this." " What do we do with the horses?" " Let them here." "I cannot wait to see my father." "And do not worry, your gloomy castle plays tricks on your imagination." "Let's go and see your father and force him to abandon his research and his books." "I'm hungry." "Miss Dartmoor just arrived." "Lucy!" "But who are you?" "Do not touch me!" "What do you do?" "Are you crazy?" "Let me go!" "I told you not to touch me, let me go!" "The shock that seeing my daughter had caused to John offered me a salvation." "John!" "Open the cell." "I can't." "I order you to open!" "I do not have the key." "It's the Egyptian who has it." "Help!" "Anne, help me!" "Help!" "Let me do it, you go and get some help quickly! Go ask for help." "Traumatized by the terrible adventure at the Castle the friend of my unfortunate daughter lost his mind." "No, continue!" "Anne de Wilbury wandered a few days in the fields," "we never heard of her anymore." "The searches were unsuccessful, and her disappearance continues to be an enigma to me." "Why did you come back alone?" "I told you to call for help." "Help me." "In an desperate effort the Egyptian parted avoiding the ax." "But the blow was brought to the wrist severing his hand." "My poor daughter was dead." "I could not do anything for her." "I chained up this horrible hand and I threw the body in a walled prison." " What you told me is terrible." " Yes." "Horrible." "You'll sleep here," "I will show you to your room." "I guess this invitation is an order and I am your prisoner." "Here are your apartments." "Tomorrow I will decide what I'll do with you." "Good night." "Good night." "What's going on?" "Quick, open the door!" "Count Dartmoor was strangled." "Strangled?" "timings : meatisgood translation : aloysius70 + Senor Zitos"