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By Jane Lindskold
Plucky younger Jenny Benet, a lately orphaned American lady who was once raised at the Wild West frontier and knowledgeable at a Boston completing institution, has come to Egypt in corporation together with her uncle Neville Hawthorne, a widespread British archaeologist. They're a part of a group investigating the mythical Buried Pyramid, the tomb of the pharaoh Neferankhotep—who can also were Moses the Lawgiver.
But they're now not the one ones attracted to the positioning. one other celebration, led via the opulent and treacherous woman Audrey Cheshire, is shadowing theirs. an individual who indicators himself "The Sphinx" has been sending threatening letters—written solely in hieroglyphics. In Egypt, an historical and shadowy association turns out decided to maintain the tomb from being discovered.
But mortals will not be all that stands of their approach.
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Said had been educated in Europe. French became the language of the court, the frock coat replaced the kaftan, and dinner ended with brandy and cigars. He was so tame to European interests that he trembled in the presence of the French consul. To oblige British travelers en route to India, he built a railway between Alexandria and Suez. To oblige the French, he agreed to de Lesseps’s Suez Canal proposal at ruinous terms. Egypt would provide the labor, but it would receive only 15 percent of the profits, and would cede the land on the Canal’s banks; irrigated by the Canal, these sand dunes would soon become some of the most expensive agricultural land in the world.
Meanwhile it is singular how long the rotten will hold together, provided you do not handle it roughly…. Rash enthusiast of change, beware! Hast thou well considered all that Habit does in this life of ours? —Thomas Carlyle, History of the French Revolution (1837)1 THE KHEDIVE’S RECEPTION ROOM was more the office of a secretary than a prince. Pink cotton curtains blocked the Cairo sun, muffling the sound of soldiers drilling on the parade ground below. The same material covered a divan floating on a Persian rug, and the family of chairs bobbing around it.
Protocol dictated that the first ship to enter should be the Eagle, Empress Eugenie’s broad and ungainly yacht, sixty feet in the beam and three hundred feet long. In a trial run the previous day, a sprightlier vessel from the Egyptian navy had run aground. To remove it before the guests arrived, de Lesseps had blown it up. An accident now meant economic and diplomatic catastrophe. The eyes of the world were on the Suez Canal. AT THE JUNCTION of Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Canal was intended as a unifier of civilizations, a conduit for the modern obsessions of trade and transit.