“I am looking for the Egyptian Curator.”

“You have found him. I am Wilbert Wilberforce, himself, at your service. How can I assist you?”   

“I was hoping to find the Rosetta Stone on display here, can you tell me where it is, sir?” Nordhausen almost pleaded.

“The Rosetta Stone? Which Rosetta Stone? There is a whole collection of artifacts that came in from Rosetta—”

Nordhausen cut in. “Black basalt slab, about so big, in hieroglyphics, demotic and Greek.”

The Curator’s eyes narrowed with a hint of recognition. “Oh, let me see, I may know what you mean,”  Mr. Wilberforce mulled. “It is not on display, sir... May I ask your name, sir, and your interest?”

“Not on display?”

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The story begins with another secret time mission by Nordhausen, just to satisfy his curiosity about something he had learned in Volume II... But when he visits the British Museum and finds the Rosetta Stone missing, then altered in a strange and unaccountable way, he returns, shaken with remorse and certain he has done something to harm the Time Meridian.