Chapter 18

Chapter 18

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Mr. Leeds warmly welcomes the group.  He allows them time to survey the room as well as the tools he will use to showcase the sphinx. An ALCOHOL lamp lights the tent, which is dark and gloomy.  Mr. Leeds begins by presenting to them a box with ashes that he claimed to have been taken from the Egyptian pyramids. He shouts a magic word, and the ashes form the image of the sphinx, whose name is Imuthis. Imuthis narrates to the group the sad story of his life, which is curiously parallel to the story of Crisostomo Ibarra.  After the tale is told, Imuthis begins accusing Padre Salvi of being a murderer and a hypocrite, and the young friar faints in his seat.