Summary

Arthur plans to stay near the Tigris for extended time, but his sponsors insist he return to England. He has told them that he found the missing tablets, and the public in England knows of his discovery. Arthur makes the mark for water on a pomegranate tree as a sign that he will return. Leila knows that he will come back but both himself and the situation will be different. He returns home to a nation that hails him as a hero and to Mabel, but he feels like he is a foreigner. Mabel and Arthur are invited to a party where he is given a tour of the hostesses’s little Nineveh where she has tablets and statues from Nineveh. Arthur is disturbed to realize that wealthy Westerners keep these treasures while Mesopotamians can never see them. At this...