THE SCARABS OF ANUBIS ( READ VICTORIAN TALES 10) WERE STOLEN FROM THE MILITAR BARRACKS IN CAIRO.MADAME CHU,THE LEADER OF A MERCENARY GROUP TOOK POSSESSION OF THEM AND OFFERED THEM TO SEVERAL THIRD PARTIES,INCLUDING THE GERMAN SECRETE SERVICE,THE MARAJAH OF RANIPUR AND BARON KURITO OF JAPAN.SO THE CHASE FOR THE SCARABS BEGAN. AND SIR MORTIMER HUNTER,MOIRA HUNTER,AND SIDNEY OREBAR ,WERE ALERTED BY THE CONSUL IN CAIRO ,WHO INTRODUCED THEM TO PROFESSOR JONES OF NEBRASKA ,WHO ,WITHOUT ANY EVIL INTENTION WAS IN THE ORIGIN OF THIS BIG PROBLEM.