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Excerpt: "I was hard at work in my tent. I had almost completed translating the inscription of a small stele of Amen-hotep III, dated B. C., 1382, which with my own efforts I had discovered, and I was feeling wonderfully self-satisfied in consequence, when of a sudden I heard a great commotion without. Almost immediately the tent flap was lifted, and Migdal Abu's black face appeared. He looked vastly excited for an Arab, and he rolled his eyes horribly. "What do you want?" I demanded irritably. "Did I not tell you I was not to be disturbed?" He bent almost double. "Excellency—a white sheik has come riding on an ass, and with him a shameless female, also white." "The dickens!" I exclaimed, for I had not seen a European for nine weeks. Migdal Abu advanced with hand outstretched. "Excellency, he would have me give you this." I took "this," and swore softly underbreath at the humourless pomposity of my unknown countryman. It was a pasteboard carte-de-visite. And we—in the heart of the Libyan desert! With a laugh I looked at the thing and read his name—"Sir Robert Ottley." "What!" I said, then sprang a-foot. Ottley the great Egyptologist. Ottley the famous explorer. Ottley the eminent decipherer of cuneiform inscriptions. Ottley the millionaire whose prodigality in the cause of learning had in ten short years more than doubled the common stock of knowledge of the history of the Shepherd kings of the Nile. I had been longing since a lad to meet him, and now he had come unasked to see me out on the burning sands of Yatibiri."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter I Concerning the Son of Hap
16Chapter XVI Lady Helen Prescribes for Her Husband
2Chapter II A Patient of the Desert
17Chapter XVII The Séance
3Chapter III Two Lies
18Chapter XVIII The Unseen
4Chapter IV The Sarcophagus's Perfume
19Chapter XIX The First Victim
5Chapter V The Shadow in the Cave
20Chapter XX Lady Helen's Medicine Operates
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6Chapter VI Enter Dr. Belleville
21Chapter XXI Hubbard's Philosophy of Life
7Chapter VII The One Goddess
22Chapter XXII The Dead Hand
8Chapter VIII Ottley Shows His Hand
23Chapter XXIII I Set Out for the East
9Chapter IX A Cool Defiance
24Chapter XXIV The Gin Is Sprung
10Chapter X The Capture of the Coffin
25Chapter XXV The Mummy Talks
11Chapter XI Good-bye to the Nile
26Chapter XXVI A Pleasant Chat With a Murderer
12Chapter XII The Meeting
27Chapter XXVII Unbound
13Chapter XIII Hubbard Is Jealous
28Chapter XXVIII The Struggle in the Chamber
14Chapter XIV The Pushful Man
29Chapter XXIX Saved by fire
15Chapter XV A Quaint Love Pact
30Chapter XXX The Last
