"Ranofer tried the box first. He found nothing there... The chest looked
no more promising... There was something dark and curving in a corner,
wrapped in a scarp of cotton rag... He tugged it out, jerked the cloth
away impatiently and went numb all over with the shock of what he saw.
There in his hand lay a gold goblet, he knew it must have been stolen
from one of the great tombs in the City of the Dead. Ranofer also knew
that in order to win his freedom he would have to prove that Gebu, his
greedy half-brother, was the thief. The events that follow will surely
excite the adventurous reader.