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Updated: June 25, 2025
This is what he had to say on two sheets of paper: LORD ERNEST BORROW, Grand Hotel, Khartum: In train leaving Assuan met man from Meroee told me work begun at our place strange news don't understand but sure you two haven't gone ahead of bargain must be foul play or else mistake but thought matter too serious go on north left train returned Assuan caught government steamer for Halfa just arrived too late for train de luxe but will proceed by ordinary train to camp better meet me there soon as possible leaving boat people take care of themselves.
"By to-morrow he'll be at Meroee Camp," I said: But I did not add: "So shall we!" There was not much room in our hearts for mountains or gold just then: yet somehow, before we left the Palace, Anthony and I had told Brigit and Monny the secret which had been the romance of our lives, until they came into it to paint dead gold with the living rose of love.
The notebook he had to sell had been the property of a distinguished distant relative, long since dead; the Italian, Ferlini, who about 1834 ransacked the ruins of Meroee in the kingdom of Candace. Ferlini had given treasure in gold, scarabs, and jewels to Berlin, all of which he had discovered in a secret cache in the masonry of a pyramid, in the so-called "pyramid field" of Meroee.
"It sounds as if there were some special story connected with it. Is there?" "Ye es," Anthony was obliged to admit. "There is a legend that it was used as a tomb by the first Queen Candace, who lived about two hundred years B.C. after Ptolemy Philadelphus. She used to reign over what they called the "Island of Meroee."
Besides, we can beg to have the tomb kept like this for the great shrine of Meroee. Our memory of this place can't have the glamour torn away whatever happens. Nothing sordid will come between it and us, as it would if why, after all, where's the great difference between opening the coffin of a woman dead thousands of years ago, or a few months?
I had informed the Set, casually, that wonderful things were being found here in the rocky desert: that the few neat white tents sheltered men who were going to make of Meroee a world's wonder: that not only had the army of stunted black pyramids visible from the train, yielded up treasures, but three tiers of palaces were being unearthed, or rather, unsanded.
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