He reveals himself to be Eugene Corbeck, an Egyptologist who was working with Trelawny. After a normal night with no attacks, a stranger arrives, begging to see Trelawny. However, when Frere demands that Trelawny be moved from his room, Margaret refuses and sends him away. Winchester to summon another expert, and he calls for Dr. On the first night of watch, Malcolm awakens to find Trelawny again on the floor, bloody and senseless. A large mummy cat in the room disturbs Margaret's cat, Silvio, and the doctor suspects Silvio is guilty of the scratch marks on Trelawny's arm. The room is filled with Egyptian relics, and Malcolm notices that the 'mummy smell' has an effect on those in the room.

Margaret reveals that her father had left a letter of strange instructions in the event of his incapacitation, stating that his body should not be removed from his room and must be watched at all times until he wakes up. Once Malcolm arrives at the house, he meets Margaret, Superintendent Dolan, and Doctor Winchester, and learns why he has been called: Margaret, hearing strange noises from her father's bedroom, woke to find him unconscious and bloodied on the floor of his room, under some sort of trance. Malcolm Ross, a young barrister, is awakened in the middle of the night and summoned to the house of famous Egyptologist Abel Trelawny at the request of Abel's daughter, Margaret, of whom Malcolm is enamoured. Prepublication issues toward a US edition were deposited for copyright by Doubleday, Page & Company in December 1902 and January 1903 but the first US edition was published by Harper & Brothers in 1904. It explores common fin de siècle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy.

The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903.

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