I was at the Tomb of the Kings yesterday." Scharnhoff smiled scornfully.
"Now you must have some whiskey to take the taste of that untruth out of your mouth! How can a man of your attainments call that obviously modern fraud by such a name?
The place is not nearly two thousand years old! It is probably the tomb of a Syrian queen named Adiabene and her family.

Josephus mentions it.

This land is full--every square metre of it--of false antiquities with real names, and real antiquities that never have been discovered! But why should a man like you, Major Grim, lend yourself to perpetuating falsity ?" He walked over to the cupboard to get whiskey, and from where we sat we could both of us see what he was doing.

The cupboard was in two parts, top and bottom, without any intervening strip of wood between the doors, which fitted tightly.

When he opened the top part the lower door opened with it.