The Papers
"Oh, great!" Dufferin exclaimed. "They're all gone!"
"I found them!" Coventry called.
The others rushed to help her untie Lady Evelyn, Lady Carnarvon and Lord Carnarvon, who were tied together in the bedroom closet with gags over their muzzles.
"Did they get away with the papers?" Lord Carnarvon asked as soon as they'd gotten his gag off. [Note--it looks like it originally read, "got his gag off."]
"Most," Petrie said. "So what?"
"We learned those things were valuable!" Lady Evelyn said.
"Wait a minute!" Dufferin said. "If they were with us, how could they have been here?" [Note--I discovered a plothole in my own story and was hastening to cover. Oops.]
"Two groups!" Lord Carnarvon yelped, and started hyperventilating.
Dufferin grabbed a paper sack and put it to his mouth to stop him before he got in real trouble. Unfortunately, he also covered Lord Carnarvon's nose and he passed out.
"Those papers had curses and maps and pictures on them and we learned they were copied from real things!" Lady Evelyn said while Dufferin went down to help Lord Carnarvon.
"What real things?" Dufferin asked. "Come on, help me. Carnarvon's out cold."
"Things from tombs," Lady Evelyn said. "Stone carvings, wall paintings, the Great Pyramid--"
"Old G. P.!" Dufferin exclaimed, forgetting about Lord Carnarvon. "But I thought it--"
Petrie interrupted. "Let me see them."
Lady Evelyn pointed. "See, there are some priests embalming Cheops' mummy. One of them is wearing a jackal mask, sacred to Anubis, the Egyptian god of embalming."
Dufferin finally got Lord Carnarvon to wake up. "But Cheops' mummy was never found. Some say it was'nt even buried there."
"They could still make wall paintings," Fredestaire said.
"That priest's name is Watu-Haru, and he's the high priest of Anubis," Lady Evelyn continued.
Everyone was talking at once, so no one could hear Evelyn's discovery. Soon Evelyn too put the papers down and started arguing.
No one saw a strange black-cloaked person enter, take the remaining papers and leave.
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