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He had gone out in the morning to explore among some rocks and about a couple of miles down the river, but he had told mc he would come back in time for table d'hote dinner at 7 o'clock; so that now as the clock struck 9 and he had not yet put in an appearance, I began to feel a little uneasy.
Perhaps he bad met with some accident, or had fallen among a marauding band of Arabs, or. The night was dark, for the new moon was a mere half-hooped line of silver, and, as far as I knew, Mr Blake had not taken a lantern with him. Then he came close to mc, and, lowering his voice, said : " I have found a tomb I" I was so much taken aback at the nature of the communication that I did not at first understand the full significance of the remark.
I became interested, for I knew that Mr Blake's dearest wish waa to discover something belonged to the hidden past, something of the far-away glory of Egypt loΒ»t for goodness knows how many centuries. Mr Blake was an archaeologist, but, unlike most " ologists," he was not taken up wholly and solely with this " fad " to the exclusion of every other interest in life.
He waa the most agreeable companion I had ever whom to know was to love. He was a gentleman and a real good fellow In the true sense of the word. It had been my good fortune to fall in with him onboard the P.
