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at Biban-el-Mulûk to the crypt in which they were ultimately found by Ahmed-Abder-Rasûl three thousand years later. Thus did Time and Fate conspire to mock these mighty kings with a temporary prolongation of the sanctity of their tomb-treasures, withdrawing them from the reverent explorer only to leave them at the mercy of the robber. And thus does one resurrection-man stretch out his unscrupulous hand to another across the centuries.
