Missing in Egypt by Rita Lee Chapman

Author:Rita Lee Chapman [Rita Lee Chapman]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B007JOUIIE
Publisher: R. Chapman
Published: 2012-03-11T13:00:00+00:00

Yasmeen’s father was not at all like her in appearance. He was short and tubby but when he saw his little girl his eyes lit up and I could see the resemblance in his broad smile. “My darling daughter” he said “I hope they haven’t hurt you”. “Never mind about all that” said Rashidi “Give me the collar and the dagger. Yasmeen’s father produced them from inside his jacket and they glittered in the sunlight. Rashidi turned them over and over in his hands, examining them. “They are truly remarkable” he said “and now it is time for you to show us where the tomb is that contains all these treasures.” From beneath their robes both Rashidi and Mosi produced guns and waved them at us, signalling for Yasmeen’s father to lead us to the tomb. He nodded to me briefly in acknowledgement as we turned back into the hills the way we had come. “It is hard for me to find this” Yasmeen’s father was explaining to Rashidi. “I have not been here since I was a boy. My father brought me just before he died. The man who showed my father the tomb died suddenly and not long after my father brought me here he also died suddenly. It is believed there is a curse on most of these tombs and that is what I also believe. That is why I have not come back here. I have only those two items you have heard about, which my father took out and which came to me on his death. In fact I had all but forgotten about the tomb. These antiquities have been in my shop for years. People comment on them and I say they are not for sale, they are just part of the shop”. “That’s enough talk old man” said Mosi “just keep walking until you find this tomb”.

We walked to a ravine by a huge boulder, which looked for all the world like it was about to topple and roll down the valley. “We are close now” said Yasmeen’s father. We walked between the sides of the sharp ravine and beyond it the ground opened up again. “Oh” said Yasmeen’s father, sucking in his breath “oh dear, what has happened here.” Before us was a pile of rocks and shale in a huge mound. “It was not like this” he explained “we covered the entrance to the tomb with rocks and stones so that it was hidden, but it was not buried under all these rocks. Some heavy rains over the years must have caused a landslip. The tomb’s entrance was way below ground level.”

Rashidi cursed and Mosi said “Great, what do we do now?” Rashidi kicked at the rubble and cursed some more. “After all this” he said “we are no closer. What is

Mohammed going to say?”

At least we had the name of the top man. Not that it would help us much as every second person in Egypt seemed to be called Mohammed.

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