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He discovered, not far from the necropolis, excavated by Petrie, the tomb of a king which, on the one hand, contained pottery and tablets like those found by Petrie, and on the other, objects entirely like those found by Amélineau.
"Gad!" whispered Smith, beside me "Sir Byngham Pyne of the India Office! You see, Petrie! You see! This place is a lure. My God! ..." He broke off, as I clutched wildly at his arm.
"My dear Petrie!" cried Eltham, in his enthusiastic way "you no doubt can do something to alleviate the poor man's suffering immediately. I will run back to your rooms for the bag and rejoin you at 280, Rectory Grove." "It's awfully good of you, Eltham " He held up his hand. "The call of suffering humanity, Petrie, is one which I may no more refuse to hear than you."
I scarcely tasted mine, the flavor was so awful; but father is an old traveler and drank the whole of his cupful!" Mr. Eltham's voice called from below. "Dr. Petrie," said the girl quickly, "what do you think they want to do to him?" "Ah!" I replied, "I wish I knew that." "Will you think over what I have told you?
It was a great trouble to her that she could not pluck up courage to speak a word in Italian. "I know more about it than some that are glib enough," she would say to her niece Livy, "but these Tuscans are so particular with their Bocca Toscana." It was almost spiteful on the part of Miss Petrie, the manner in which, on this evening, she remained close to her friend Caroline Spalding.
"Poor old Petrie," murmured Smith "I knew, but I hadn't the heart He has her again God knows by what chains he holds her. But she's only a woman, old boy, and women are very much alike very much alike from Charing Cross to Pagoda Road."
Spalding's house; and even yet Lady Rowley had never been put right as to that mistake of hers about Wallachia Petrie. That other trouble of hers, and her eldest daughter's journey to Siena, had prevented them from going out; and though the matter had often been discussed between Lady Rowley and Nora, there had not as yet come between them any proper explanation.
Even as I set the glass down I realized, too late, that it was the first drink I had ever permitted to pass my lips within an abode of Dr. Fu-Manchu.... I started to my feet. "Frazer!" I muttered "we've been drugged! we ..." "You sit down," came Zarmi's husky voice, and I felt her hands upon my breast, pushing me back into my seat. "You very tired ... you go to sleep...." "Petrie! Dr. Petrie!"
"You see, Petrie," said Smith, beginning to stuff tobacco into his briar, "if we are ever short of funds, here's something" pointing to the Tûlun-Nûr box upon the table "which would retrieve our fallen fortunes." He uttered one of his rare, boyish laughs, and began to pace the carpet again, his gaze always set upon our strange treasure. What did it contain?
"I have got a roving commission, Petrie, and it doesn't rest with me where I am to-day nor where I shall be to-morrow." There was something ominous in the words, and, putting down my glass, its contents untasted, I faced round and looked him squarely in the eyes. "Out with it!" I said. "What is it all about?" Smith suddenly stood up and stripped off his coat.
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