Chapter 6
I pushed the men hard, and although this time we were accompanied by wagons, our return to the Valley of the Kings took less than two weeks. We arrived back at camp on 26 November.
When we rolled into camp, the head man took charge of the men and supplies. I unsaddled Hubini and released her into the corral with George, where their pleasure in seeing each other again was obvious. I thanked Rashid and hurried to find my love, where I hoped to make my own pleasure in seeing him as obvious.
He wasn’t in his tent, however, and I ran into the person I least wanted to see when I emerged from it.
“You’re looking for the old man?” Edward Cramdon sneered at me. “He’s in the field office with Mr Carter and the earl. Three days ago we found an important tomb.”
I ignored him and hurried
