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 found relief in weeping. I would weep softly to myself.

"In this way three weeks pasesdpassed [sic], each day gray with grief, each night black with sorrow. Then one day my dear friend, Dennis Brenner, came to see me. He drew up a chair and sat down near the fireplace. Slender tongues of flame shot up from the apple limbs, followed by a series of combustive flashes from the sassafras. Then swelled up an ocean of blue light from the hickory logs. In the reflection of this vari-colored play of light I caught a glimpse of Dennis' face, and forthwith I knew that Dennis had a happy thought.

"Dennis turned his face from the fireplace and faced me. 'Listen, Richard,' he said, 'my father has been commissioned by the British Museum to excavate the site of the ancient Egyptian city Ombos, which, it is said contained great gold and silver mines. You know you have often expressed to me the desire for an opportunity to join an archeological expedition. I think your wish has at last been gratified, for I have persuaded my father to ask you to join the expedition. We shall start Saturday; and until that time, I think, you have ample chance to arrange all details for the expedition.'

"When Saturday came we embarked with hearts high in excitement for our prospective life in hunting ancient cities. Within several days after our arrival in Egypt, we were comfortably established in a little village about ten miles to the south of Thebes. The work of excavation was begun immediately,

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