seated in a room that he had never seen before — a room rather like a shed with a skylight in it。 The tutor came in with a long envelope in his hand; and took from it a batch of green papers; and gave one of these to Budge for him to work at that morning。 The tutor locked him in and left him。 When he looked at the paper he saw it contained questions and extracts from bilingual Assyrian and Akkadian texts for translation。 The questions he could answer; but he could not translate the texts; though he knew them by sight; and his emotions were so great that he woke up in a fright。 At length he fell asleep; but the dream repeated itself twice; and he woke up in a greater fright than before。 He then got up — it was about 2 A。M。 — went downstairs to his room; lighted a fire; and; finding the texts in the second volume of Rawlinson’s great work; found the four texts and worked at them till breakfast…time; when he was able to make passable renderings of them。 He went to College at nine; and was informed that there was no room in the Hall; it being filled by a class
Chapter 14 MEXICO
J。 Gladwyn Jebb — His character — Mr。 and Mrs。 H。 R。 H。 visit him in Mexico — Death of their only son while absent — New York on way to Mexico — Reports — Their loyalty to each other — Mexico City — Don Anselmo — Golden Head of Montezuma — Treasure hunt — Zumpango — Journey to silver mine — Chiapas — Vera Cruz — Frontera — Millions of mosquitoes — A mule load of silver — Attempt of robbers to