In this chapter, we learn that Memphis, the capital of Egypt, is within view. It has been a capital of the country since the reign of Ramesses II, and its territory encompassed both the banks of the Nile River that those who had drunk the water there will return to Egypt again. The narrator tells us that he is going to do some important work, and that his sister has disappeared without a reason. He tells his brother that he must find the trader who had sold him the golden bracelet. He then tells him the story of the four young men who purchased the ancient Egyptian princess's mummy in 1980. On its way to Egypt, the ship had sunk to the bottom in the Atlantic Ocean alongside its mummy was called "amen - ra" , a misread of the name of a priestess. The so-called famed witch died within a year of the mummy's arrival in Britain. This is the only time that the bracelet has ever been sold, and the narrator is shocked that the shop has only sold one golden bracelet, which he thinks is a ridiculous story. He goes on to say that he has been guarding the bracelet for 117 years, waiting for the day when it will be returned to him. He curses his sister for stealing his beloved.