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"I have a presentiment that we shall find in the valley of Biban el Moluk a tomb intact," said to a high-bred-looking young Englishman a much more humble personage who was wiping, with a big, blue-checked handkerchief, his bald head, on which stood drops of perspiration, just as if it had been made of porous clay and filled with water like a Theban water-jar.
"May Osiris hear you! " replied the English nobleman to the German scholar. "One may be allowed such an invocation in the presence of the ancient _Diospolis Magna_. But we have been so often deceived hitherto; treasure-seekers have always forestalled us."