Eve ("another tongue-tied gushing fan") is given the opportunity o meet her idol backstage following an evening performance.Can""t produce plays without check." She apologized hat she had it with her all the time and gave Max a check endorsed o "CASH" - explaining: "You didn""t tell me the name of the play.There, powerful archer Mathayus was about to kill Memnon when the young boy was apprehended by Memnon""s guards and brought into the courtyard.When the seal was broken, they were sprayed in the face with a melting substance and killed.The diggers"" faces were "melted" - by "pressurized salt acid, some kind of ancient booby trap." Jonathan wondered whether the place was really "cursed." Suddenly, the Medjai rode into the two camps and attacked the explorers with guns and scimitars.During a pause in the fighting, Medjai leader Ardeth Bay warned: "Enough...We will shed no more blood, but you must leave.Leave this place or die.You have one day." The Americans sensed that there definitely was something being protected under the sand: "You know there""s treasure down there.