CHAPTER IV

TRACKS IN THE BLOOD (_Friday, July 13; 12.15 p. m._) Scarlett had been watching Vance intently, a look of horrified amazement on his round bronzed face. “I’m afraid you’re right, Vance,” he said, nodding with reluctance. “Doctor Bliss found that scarab on the site of the excavation of Intef’s tomb two years ago. He didn’t mention it to the Egyptian authorities; and when he returned to America he had it set in a scarf-pin. But surely its presence here can have no significance. . . .” “Really, now…