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Six,THE ADVENTURE OF THE EGYPTIAN TOMB,I have always considered that one of the most thrilling and dramatic of the many adventures I haveshared with Poirot was that of our investigation ¹ into the strange series of deaths which followedupon the discovery and opening of the Tomb of King Men-her-Ra.,Hard upon the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankh-Amen by Lord Carnarvon, Sir John Willardand Mr.?Bleibner of New York, pursuing their excavations ² not far from Cairo, in the vicinity of thePyramids of Gizeh, came unexpectedly on a series of funeral chambers ³. The greatest interest wasaroused by their discovery. The Tomb appeared to be that of King Men-her-Ra, one of thoseshadowy kings of the Eighth Dynasty, when the Old Kingdom was falling to decay. Little wasknown about this period, and the discoveries were fully ⁴ reported in the newspapers.,An event soon occurred which took a profound hold on the public mind. Sir John Willarddied quite suddenly of heart failure.,The more sensational ⁵ newspapers immediately took the opportunity of reviving all the oldsuperstitious stories connected with the ill luck of certain Egyptian treasures. The unluckyMummy at the British Museum, that hoary ⁷ old chestnut ⁸, was dragged out with fresh zest ⁹, wasquietly denied by the Museum, but nevertheless enjoyed all its usual vogue ¹⁰.,It was then that Poirot received a brief note from Lady Willard, widow of the deadarchaeologist, asking him to go and see her at her house in Kensington Square. I accompaniedhim.,Lady Willard was a tall, thin woman, dressed in deep mourning. Her haggard face boreeloquent testimony ¹² to her recent grief.,“It is kind of you to have come so promptly ¹³, Monsieur Poirot. ”,“I am at your service, Lady Willard. You wished to consult?me?
”,“You are, I am aware, a detective, but it is not only as a detective that I wish to consult you.,He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论 。,The excavations are open to the public. 发掘现场对公众开放
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