3/26/2009
52
Aegypt
*Audrey continued in a placating voice, “Doctor, continue your investigation. The situation is not just interesting but unique. Perhaps some new medical miracle awaits your discovery.” He turned impatiently away from the Doctor toward Paul. “What I wanted to tell you, Lieutenant, is I believe we have discovered another tomb. I believe we may be in just the antechamber of the complex.”
*Paul nodded slowly.
*“I was reading again Howard Carter’s account of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, and I believe we have discovered a parallel. The professor was stymied for a while by a blank wall. It was this same blank wall that kept the initial looters, in antiquity, away from Tutankhamun’s tomb. Monsieur Parrain and I think—” he paused to light a cigar—“the same deceit was used in this tomb. We did some soundings today; the eastern wall does have a slightly hollow sound. When the weather clears, we’ll continue our search around that wall. Just think: a sealed royal tomb. It could be a find greater than Tutankhamun.”