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Ardeth Bay was suddenly at his side, and a white smile flashed in the dark beard. "Now are you glad to see me?"
Out the back window of the bus, the two longtime allies in adventure could see the quartet of undead fanning out, four abreast, picking up speed, accelerating after the bus. O'Connell gave the Med-jai chieftain a quick look, a mixture of apprehension and fondness. "Like old times, buddy.... Good luck to us both."
Alex screamed.
Lock-nah, still on his knees, raised a hand to slap the boy, but the creature—Alex had already figured out that this was Lord Imhotep—also raised a hand, for Lock-nah to refrain from the blow. Another gesture from the gross, creepy creature told Lock-nah to rise, and the Arab took several steps back, as if granting some privacy to the boy and the mummy.
"Anck-su-namun reincarnated," Meela was saying.
Imhotep stared back at her for several long moments. "Only in body ..." His fetid lips and rotted cheeks formed something like a smile. "But soon ... soon I shall return to you your soul. I will bring it back to you, from the depths of the underworld."
"My friend," Ardeth Bay said, his tone grave, "you do not understand. By putting that bracelet on, your son has started a chain reaction that could bring the Apocalypse upon this world."
Then he felt the world moving beneath him.
Later, he would wonder if he imagined it; still later, he would know he hadn’t.
But right now, the sands, the earth, were shifting under him, not trembling like an earthquake, something else, something much stranger, something unmistakably evil .
"You're here," O'Connell said, "and the bad guys are here, and they've kidnapped Evy ... can I guess the rest?" The Med-jai nodded gravely. "The 'bad guys' have liberated the creature from his grave." "What, the Scorpion King?"
Unnerved, Ardeth Bay stopped, and said, "How do you know of him?"
O'Connell, barely breaking stride, grabbed the Arab's sleeve and got him moving again, saying, "You weren't talking about the Scorpion King, were you? You meant that those clowns have dug up Imhotep!" Ardeth Bay nodded glumly.
Ardeth Bay bowed again, said, “May Allah always smile down upon you,” and he galloped off.
In the midst of trading blows with Lock-nah, Ardeth Bay yelled, "Mrs. O'Connell! What is in this chest?" Alex saw his mother blithely dump a big glass case filled with priceless artifacts down on top of one of the turbaned warriors, felling him, smashing the glass and much of the case's contents to smithereens. His mother was out of breath. "The ... the. . . Bracelet... of Anubis!"
The dark-garbed warrior's shock was apparent. "You have this?"
Catching her breath in a momentary lull, she nodded.
"Get it!" Ardeth Bay yelled. "Get it now and get out of here!"
"But..."
"Now! They must not get the bracelet!
“You’re mistaken,” O’Connell said. “But if you’d like to borrow a bullet, just ask.”
Perhaps this would be a fitting end, not so much ironic as just. Greed had brought them here—not honor
Anguished, Imhotep, straining as the Med-jai held him captive, looked down upon the face of his beloved, sought her eyes; her eyes sought his . . .
. . . and closed.
And again, the high priest of Osiris screamed, a scream of agony that shook the stony chamber: He had lost her again! He had lost her again . . .
Evelyn’s mouth opened, too—in a scream so loud, so spine-chillingly shrill, that even Imhotep was momentarily taken aback, pausing in his recitation.
Revolvers flew into the hands of O’Connell, Henderson, and Daniels; but Ardeth Bay merely glowered at them, a scowl touched with a contemptuous smile.
Jonathan frowned. “I say—he’ll have to kill me first.”
Beni shrugged. “He won’t mind.”
“I . . . I serve him only to save myself. Better to stand at the devil’s right hand than to be in his path.”