Beyond the Grave - - 39 Clues 04 by Jude Watson

Author:Jude Watson [Watson, Jude]
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile, Puzzle
ISBN: 9780545090612
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2009-06-01T23:00:00+00:00

drawing? Everything was ancient, existing thousands of years before Katherine Cahill was born. Katherine must have seen this tomb, must have walked through and been stunned by its beauty, just as they had. How could she have left something here that she knew would be found? She wouldn't have left an object; her guides were tomb robbers, so she knew that objects wouldn't be safe.

Amy gave a last glance behind as they climbed back up to air and sunlight. What did you leave, Katherine? she wondered.

* * *

As they returned to the boat, they saw the white paper fluttering from the mast. "What's that?" Amy asked warily.

"Maybe it's a takeout menu," Dan said. "Do mummies eat pizza?"

They jumped aboard and walked closer. Nellie gasped. The piece of paper had been

attached to the mast with a lethal-looking knife. The blade glinted in the sun.

They stepped closer to read the message.

DEATH SHALL COME ON SWIFT WINGS TO HIM WHO DISTURBS THE PEACE OF

THOSE WHO SLEEP.

"This is way too creepy," Nellie said with a shudder.

Theo extracted the knife and crumpled up the paper. "Must be the locals trying to scare us for their own amusement."

Amy didn't think so. "But what does it mean?" she asked.

"It's the pharaoh's curse," Theo explained. "A silly superstition, that's all. Anyone who violates a tomb will suffer a terrible and untimely death. It's all the stuff of horror films, really. Totally juvenile."

Juvenile? Dan looked at Amy. Jonah, he mouthed.

Nellie sprang to set out the lunch they'd bought on the way home. "Could we not talk about mummys' curses before we eat? Really bad for digestion." Dan and Amy sat down on chairs out of earshot of Theo and Nellie, who chatted while they ate. "So Jonah knows we're here," Dan said.

Amy scooped up some baba ghanoush with the flat-bread called aish merahrah.

"You're right. It's probably him. Seems like his style."

"He'd rather follow us than figure something out himself," Dan said. "But what is it?"

Amy squinted at her plate. "Some kind of eggplant thing, I think."

"No, what we're missing.

We're the thirty-nine clueless! There has to be a reason why Katherine Cahill led us to that tomb." Dan had memorized Katherine's dumb poem. Now he went over it slowly in his head.

He sat up. "Hey. Remember --Under ancient stars step by step to mind. We thought she meant the sky. What if she meant -- "

"The golden stars on the ceiling of the tomb!" Amy cried.

"Step by step," Dan said. "We looked at everything on the walls, but did we examine

The steps?

We have to get back into that tomb!"

CHAPTER 13

Irina held on to the railing. She couldn't risk stumbling on these steep stairs. She'd seen the Cahill kids leave the tomb, and she knew something must be here. A small explosive blew the lock, and she was in. Good thing she wasn't seen. Egyptians could get so touchy about their precious sites.

Irina came to a small antechamber. Those flat Egyptian figures -- all the same, they were -- surrounded her, some with a bird's head, some with crowns, some holding staffs curved like snakes.

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