The Fortieth Door Author:Mary Hastings Bradley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Subjects: Egypt Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Fiction / Romance / Historical History / Ancient / Egypt History / Middle East / Egypt Notes: This is a black and wh... more »ite OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII TO McLEAN'S ASTONISHMENT IT is no end of good of you, Jack, to take this trouble," Andrew McLean remarked appreciatively, looking up from his scrutiny of the packet which his unexpected luncheon guest had pushed over to his plate. "Uncommon thoughtful. It's undoubtedly a twin to that locket, the portrait of the man's wife -- whatever his name was." "Delcassé," said Jack Ryder promptly. Gratefully he drained the second lemon squash which the silent-footed Mohammed had placed at his elbow. It had been a hard morning's trip, this coming in from camp in high haste, and he was hot and dusty. "You might have sent the thing," McLean mentioned. "I daresay that special agent chap has left the country, for I recollect he said he was at the end of his search. . . . And, of course, this isn't much of a clue -- eh, what?" "It's everything of a clue," insisted Ryder. "It shows where this Frenchman was working, for the first thing " "Unless it had been stolen by some native who lost it in that tomb." "Natives don't lose gold lockets. Of course it might have been stolen and hidden -- but that's far-fetched. It's much more likely that this was the very tomb where Delcasse was working at the time of his death. For one thing, the place showed signs of previous excavation up to the inner corridor, and there I'll swear no modern got ahead of me. And for another thing, it's ...« less