Secret of the Prince's Tomb by Marianne Hering

Author:Marianne Hering
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781604828795
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

7

The Cell

Beth and Patrick stood silent.

Tabitha didn’t say a word either. She sat on the sand. She looked scared.

The Egyptian looked first at Patrick and Beth. Then he scowled at the broken pot and the poles. He slowly shook his head.

“Back to work,” he said to Tabitha. She looked helplessly at the cousins. Then she ran off.

The guard grabbed Beth and Patrick by the shoulders. He said, “You two are coming with me.”

“Where are you taking us?” Patrick asked.

The guard grunted and pushed the cousins toward a wooden cart. It had two oxen hitched to the front.

The Egyptian motioned for Patrick and Beth to climb into the back of the cart. He grabbed a rope from inside the cart. He tied the cousins’ wrists together. The knots were tight. Then he looped the rope through the slats on the side of the cart.

“This will hold you,” he said. He walked to the front of the cart and climbed on. He picked up a stick with a whip at the end.

Crack! The guard snapped the whip in the air. “Yah!” he said.

One of the oxen snorted. Then the animals jerked the cart forward.

Patrick and Beth looked at each other. There was nothing to say.

They passed palms, rocks, statues, and ponds covered with blue lotus flowers. After a long time, they reached the front of a building. The guard stopped the cart.

Beth nodded toward the marketplace next to the building. “We’re back again,” she said.

The guard untied the rope from the cart. Then he used the rope to lead the cousins inside by their wrists.

The building was dark and smelled damp and sweaty. Patrick was glad to be out of the sun. The three of them walked down a long staircase. A door with metal bars was at the bottom.

It was a prison cell.

“No!” Beth cried. She pulled back.

The guard pushed her toward the door. “You were attempting to help a slave escape,” he said.

He opened the cell door with a key. He roughly pushed the cousins inside.

Beth fell to her knees on wet straw.

Patrick stumbled and fell against a stone wall. Before he could turn around, he heard a bang! and then a clank.

“Tell Lateef we’re here!” Patrick called out.

The guard walked away.

Patrick and Beth were locked in.

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