The Mummy Room at Tulane.
Professor Lovejoy's office is rarely visited. It is Dinwiddie Hall, across the corridor from the room where Tulane's mummies are stored. This suits the professor. He is getting up in years, so he enjoys the peace and quiet.
" I do not seek to understand that I may believe but believe that I might understand. For this too I believe since, unless I first believe, I shall not understand." -St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109).
St. Anselm is known as the Doctor Magnificus. This is a quotation that is framed on Professor Lovejoy's office wall.
Ethan Lovejoy knows all the guards who work in the mummy room. They are cowardly and dim-witted lot. The studious professor knows what the guards do with the mummies. He turns a blind eye. He gets a cut.
Prof. Lovejoy often works late into the night, often past the witching hour. His quiet contemplation of scholarly matters is often interrupted by giggling in the hall. They charge admission to see the mummies after hours.
The kind of people who want to visit the mummy room after dark fall into two categories. Most are occultists or paranormal investigators. Some are just perverts.
Because of the mummies' age, a guard has to be in the room at all times.
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