Now, mount and begone." So we climbed into the embroidered saddles of the kneeling dromedaries, and a few minutes later were riding through Mur toward the pass, accompanied by our guard and hooting mobs that once or twice became threatening, but were driven off by the soldiers.
"I say, Doctor," said Higgs to me excitedly, "do you know that we have got all the best of the treasure of the Tomb of Kings in those five-and-twenty crates?
I have thought since that I was crazy when I packed them, picking out the most valuable and rare articles with such care, and filling in the cracks with ring money and small curiosities, but now I see it was the inspiration of genius.

My subliminal self knew what was going to happen, and was on the job, that's all.

Oh, if only we can get it safe away, I shall not have played Daniel and been nearly starved to death for nothing.

Why, I'd go through it all again for that golden head alone.

Shove on, shove on, before they change their minds; it seems too good to be true." Just then a rotten egg thrown by some sweet Abati youth landed full on the bridge of his nose, and dispersing itself into his mouth and over his smoked spectacles, cut short the Professor's eloquence, or rather changed its tenor.