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The tunnel at Kuyunjik came down on Elias Jajou's father, and the debt came due the next morning.
Elias is a stonecutter's son in Mosul who follows the English horse races in old newspapers. He drags his father Toma out from under a slab with both legs broken, and Hajji Qasim takes the family's tools against an advance of eleven hundred piastres. Elias keeps the mallet and a carved stone horse's head, burned pink all through.
The Rassam brothers put him down as a mason for Austen Henry Layard, who goes down the Tigris on a raft of goatskins to Nimrud. The diggers find carved slabs, wedge-shaped writing and a chariot with three horses. Layard is sure it is Nineveh. Elias sets his father's horse beside the new stone and sees different stone cut by a different hand. Then the Pasha's officer finds a flake of gold in Elias's trench.
