Ankhesenamun could see that there was nothing more she could glean from Nezem-mut at this stage.
“If she knows where it is,” she thought, “she will go to it. I’m sure of it. And when she does either Hapu or I will be there.”
* * * *
Hapu returned to Akhetaten as soon as the Queen told him what she suspected about Nezem-mut. She told him to wait and watch and never leave the palace. But when he was there he found he could not remain idle. He started tapping all the paving stones in the building with a heavy stick — listening intently — hoping to hear the difference in tone that would tell him the area beneath the floor was hollow.
As he did so from dawn till dusk his mind wandered on to many things. Queen Ankhesenamun herself was a puzzle to him. He had seen her before at Akhetaten when
