Fu Manchu has become one of the small band of literary beings, like Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan of the Apes, to achieve world-wide immortality and familiarity. The books of Sax Rohmer, creator of the insidious Asiatic doctor, have brought to millions the breath of the mysterious Orient, the legend-haunted, incense-filled atmosphere of the oldest civilizations of Man. The short story we have chosen to reprint is one of Sax Rohmer's least known tales, yet it is one that the author himself once designated as his favorite. An unforgettable legend out of Egypt, this is the first time in very many years that it has been brought back to the American public.