The light of it fell full upon the face of a man whom I recognized at once as a body-servant of the prince Joshua, though whether he was passing me toward the pair or returning from their direction I could not be sure.
"What are you doing here ?" I asked.
"What is that to you, Physician ?" he answered.
Then the match burnt out, and before I could light another he had vanished, like a snake into a stone wall.
My first impulse was to warn Maqueda and Oliver that they were being watched, but reflecting that the business was awkward, and that the spy would doubtless have given over his task for this day, I left it alone, and went down to the Tomb of the Kings to help Higgs.

Just afterwards Quick came on duty, long before his time, the fact being that he had no confidence in the Professor as a director of mining operations.

When he appeared Higgs and I retreated from that close and filthy tunnel, and, by way of recreation, put in an hour or so at the cataloguing and archaeological research in which his soul delighted.
"If only we could get all this lot out of Mur," he said, with a sweep of his hand, "we should be the most famous men in Europe for at least three days, and rich into the bargain." "Ptolemy," I answered, "we shall be fortunate if we get ourselves alive out of Mur, let alone these bones and ancient treasures," and I told him what I had seen that evening.
His fat and kindly face grew anxious.
"Ah!" he said.

"Well, I don't blame him; should probably do the same myself if I got the chance, and so would you--if you were twenty years younger.

No, I don't blame him, or her either, for the fact is that although their race, education, and circumstances are so different, they are one of Nature's pairs, and while they are alive nothing will keep them apart.