The One Who Went Away
"Get back to camp, I tell you! If you won't work, I won't have you peering around here." Again, later, he repeated his command, with growing anger. In the end he found nothing, and became convinced that the man had lied. He marched back to camp, hot and much disgusted, and sent for the culprit, who came in serene innocence.
"Why did you lie to me?" Merritt asked. "When I sent you from the place, why did you return? So that you might laugh when you saw that I followed your worthless directions?"
"I was not from the camp, my master!" the man declared. "And where I said I saw the mummy, there I saw it. When it went I do not know; where it went I do not know either."
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