She shook her head. "For some time—I have been here."
"Up the Nile yet?"
"The Nile—no, monsieur."
"But you are going?"
"That—that I do not know. Sometime, perhaps."
She sounded guarded.... He hurried into revelations.
"I am staying not far from Cairo, myself. I am an excavator—on an expedition from an American museum."
"Ah, you dig?"
"Well, not personally.... But the expedition digs.... We've had some bully finds."
"And you came from America—to dig in the sands?" The black domino laughed softly. "For how long, monsieur?"