The Iron Tomb by Peter Vegas

Author:Peter Vegas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Food was fast becoming a priority. He hadn’t eaten for nearly twenty-four hours. Sam wasn’t surprised to find out the Nefertiti didn’t do room service. Maybe that’s why his uncle had brought the phone to the table. Or was there another reason? The Nefertiti didn’t make money from food, but Sam was sure they charged their guests for phone calls. That meant he could find out exactly who Uncle Jasper had called and when.

* * *

THERE WAS NO SIGN OF the old lady at reception, but a couple of rings of the brass bell roused the aging Ahmed from the back room.

“I’ve been speaking to my professor about the bill,” said Sam, “and he asked me to get a printout of the room charges.”

Ahmed seemed conflicted between the thought of getting paid versus the effort required to print out the bill, but the allure of cold hard cash won him over. He bashed away at the computer keyboard for a couple of minutes. Then the printer beside him whirred into life and cranked out a sheet of paper.

MIGHTY NEFERTITI MOTEL AL MINYA

Room No. 18

Phone Charges

Thu July 23

13;42—Al Minya Museum

Call dur 1.16

Charge—2NGP

Ahmed watched Sam fold the bill and put it in his pocket. “You are paying now?” he asked hopefully.

“I have to wait for the professor to return,” Sam reminded him. “I thought I might do some sightseeing till he gets back. Can you tell me how to get to the Al Minya Museum?”

* * *

THE CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATION of Al Minya had a fancy name, but the building didn’t live up to it. The two-story brick structure looked more like a warehouse, and it took three rings of the doorbell before he heard someone unlocking the door.

Standing in the doorway was a round-faced middle-aged woman wearing a beaming smile that revealed a set of teeth that seemed too big for her mouth. “Well, hello there, deary. Come on in.”

Sam darted through the door, eager to get out of the sweltering midmorning heat. He didn’t think to check if he was being watched.

Even if he had, it was unlikely he would have recognized the figure in sunglasses who had slipped into the coffee shop across the road.

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