“You know who I am?”
“I heard that there was a stranger riding in this direction three days ago and when I was told he was a foreigner, I suspected that he would be coming to see me.”
“I am still flattered that you should have heard of my work in Egypt,” Lord Yelverton said, “but I suppose even in Acapulco the geographical reports arrive sooner or later.”
“Usually later,” Audenshaw replied. “It is a pity that last tomb had been rifled before you opened it.”
“It was heart-breaking,” Lord Yelverton admitted.
“Here the robbers have not been quite so busy, but they are now arriving in well financed expeditions with permits to dig and in a few years, Mexico will be barren and deprived of her memories of the glorious past.”
“I think it will take perhaps a few hundred years.”
“I really hop
