| 10 And so, the watchman realized that he would not have to go home and be married, after all. In fact, he would never go home again except to visit. If it took him half his life, he would do everything in his power to become what Dr. Rubin was. This was the thing he was born to do, only it was just another secret that had been kept from him all this time. Yes, it was very fitting, after all. As Dr. Rubin bent forward over one of the coffins on the floor, Sayeed the watchman, soon to become an assistant, noted the profile of the learned man with its large eye and elongated brow, the full, well-marked lips and that most graceful of noses, delicately curved with nostril shaped like a teardrop—a profile to be found everywhere in the Cairo Egyptian Museum and a very apt description of Sayeed el Kashef, himself. THE END BACK TO BEGINNING |