Tree of Life

“Shambleau! Shambleau!” the wild mob cried with loathing and disgust, but Northwest Smith drove them off with his blaster and took the exhausted girl to his rooms. There was no hair upon her face — neither brows nor lashes; but what lay hidden beneath the tight scarlet turban bound around her head?

Brian O’Hara, young two-fisted American lawyer, has inherited the ancient Egyptian scroll which tells that the body of the great Queen Cleopatra lies in the heart of a mountain in the innermost part of the Sahara Desert — “not dead, but sleeping.”