26-03-19 CHAPTER TWO THIRD MONTH OF INUNDATION 4 TH DAY Satipy was talking to Yahmose. Her voice had a high strident note that sel- dom varied its tone. You must assert yourself. That is what I say! You will never be valued unless you assert yourself. Your f...

26-03-19 PART ONE INUNDATION CHAPTER ONE SECOND MONTH OF INUNDATION 20 TH DAY Renisenb stood looking over the Nile. In the distance she could hear faintly the upraised voices of her broth- ers, Yahmose and Sobek, disputing as to whether or no the dykes in a...

26-03-19 DEATH COMES AS THE END AUTHORS NOTE The action of this book takes place on the West bank of the Nile at Thebes in Egypt about 2000 BC. Both place and time are incidental to the story. Any other place at any other time would have served as well: but i...

26-03-19 A manuscript document sent to Scotland Yard by the master of the Emma Jane fishing trawler From my earliest youth I realized that my nature was a mass of contradic- tions. I have, to begin with, an incurably romantic imagination. The prac- tice of t...

26-03-19 Epilogue Sir Thomas Legge, Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, said irritably: But the whole things incredible! Inspector Maine said respectfully: I know, sir. The AC went on: Ten people dead on an island and not a living soul on it. It doesnt...

26-03-19 III Relief possessed Veraenormous exquisite relief. At last it was over. There was no more fearno more steeling of her nerves She was alone on the island Alone with nine dead bodies But what did that matter? She was alive She sat thereexquisitely ha...

26-03-19 Chapter 16 I Aeons passedworlds spun and whirledTime was motionlessIt stood stillit passed through a thousand ages No, it was only a minute or so Two people were standing looking down on a dead man Slowly, very slowly, Vera Claythorne and Philip Lom...

26-03-19 III Philip grasped her shoulder. He said, and his voice was urgent and grim: This settles it. Armstrong is in hiding somewhere in that house. Im go- ing to get him. But Vera clung to him. She cried: Dont be a fool. Its us now! Were next! He wants us...

26-03-19 II They spent the morning on the cliffs, taking it in turns to flash a mirror at the mainland. There were no signs that any one saw them. No answering signals. The day was fine, with a slight haze. Below, the sea heaved in a gigantic swell. There we...