The next morning the Carnahan siblings were making their way to the barge along the Giza port, Sam getting many strange looks for dressing in pants, which she easily ignored listening to her twin and brother.

"Do you really think he'll show up?"

"Undoubtedly, I know the breed, he may be a cowboy but his word is his word."

"Personally, I think he's filthy, rude, and a complete scoundrel. I don't like him one bit." Evelyn confessed.

"Anyone, I know?" O'Connell asked walking up to them. "Now that's the Sammy I'm used to seeing."

"Morning, O'Connell." Sam greeted.

"Oh, um, hello." Evie greeted a little breathlessly.

"Smashing day for the start of an adventure, eh O'Connell?" Jonathan asked patting Rick's chest.

"Yeah, sure. Smashing." O'Connell replied, checking his pockets.

"Oh no, I never steal from a partner. Partner."

"Mister O'Connell, can you look me in the eye, and guarantee me that this isn't some sort of flimflam because if it is I'm warning you-" Evie asked.

"You're warning me? My whole damn garrison believed in this so much that without orders, they marched halfway across Lybia and into Egypt to find that city, and when we got there all we found was sand and blood." He said, and Sammy clenched her teeth thinking about that. "Let me get your bags." He grabbed Evie's bags and walked up to the gangplank Sammy following him with her bags. "How come you haven't told your sister that you were there?" He asked.

"Do you think I want to go back any more than you do? If I had told them I'd be making this trip a long time ago."

"Does your family know anything about you?" O'Connell asked, and Sam sighed.

"I don't like keeping secrets from them, it's just easier if I do. Could you imagine Evie's face if I told her that not only was I in the Legion but that I was shot, and only lived because of the goodness of a Nubian tribe?" O'Connell started laughing at the image that came to mind.

"Samantha Carnahan!" Sam turned around and smiled at the man walking up to her. "Only woman I've ever known to wear pants."

"Henderson, what are you doing here?" She asked, smiling at him.

"Would you believe me if I said I came to win your heart?"

"No," Sam replied easily.

"We're going to Hamunaptra." He confessed. "Going after Seti's treasure."

"Good luck."

"Don't need luck, got a man who's been there." Sam smiled, then started making her way to her room. "Hey, why don't you join us for some poker in the parlor."

"Thanks but I don't want to cause more of a stir than I already am."

That night Sam was standing a few yards away from her sister looking out at the night river and sighed still preoccupied with the thought of breaking her vow. A noise drew her attention to the table where Evie was reading but she turned back away seeing it was just O'Connell. She watched her sister walk past then another scuffled sound drew her attention and she and Rick both went over and found Beni.

"My very good friends. What a surprise." He said looking between O'Connell and Sam. "Sam you're a woman?"

"Well if it ain't my little buddy Beni." O'Connell greeted.

"I ought to kill you," Sam growled grabbing her knife and holding it to his throat.

"Think of my children!" Beni whined. The two looked at each other.

"You don't have any children." They both said.

"Someday I might."

"So you're the one leading the Americans I might have known." O'Connell figured. "So what's the scam? You get them to the middle of the desert then you leave them to rot?"

"Unfortunately no. These Americans are smart, they pay me only half now, half when I get them back to Cairo, so I must go all the way." Sam put her knife away.

"You never believed in Hamunaptra, O'Connell why are you going back?" They looked down to where Evie was petting a camel but once she saw them watching she walked away.

"That girl saved my neck." He explained.

"You always did have more balls than brains." Beni laughed.

"Let's make us even, shall we?" Sam said, as O'Connell "laughed" with Beni.

"Even?" Beni asked and the two warriors lifted him, then chucked him over the side of the barge. "O'Connell! Carnahan!" They heard him yell. "I'm going to kill you for this!"

"Sounds familiar," Sam said, glancing down and then spotting a wet footprint. Tapping O'Connell on his arm she quickly grabbed one of his guns as he checked for a source. They kicked in the door to Evelyn's room and saw a man dressed in black with a hook holding Evie in front of him. "Friend of yours?" She asked. The candle on the table flickered and the two turned and started shooting as dark-robed men burst into the room. Somewhere in the gunfight, Sam wasn't entirely sure where a fire started.

"The map! The map! I forgot the map!" Evelyn yelled going back toward her room after they pulled her out.

"Relax! I'm the map! It's all up here!" O'Connell informed tapping his head and pulling her along.

"That's comforting!" Evelyn replied sarcastically.

"Come on, there's still one more of those guys around here somewhere," Sam yelled.

"Samantha where did you learn to handle a gun?" Evie asked as they ran.

"The French Foreign Legion!" Sam confessed keeping her eyes peeled.

"What?!" They reached the horse paddock and the wall next to them got shot at, O'Connell pivoted and shot the robed man. After shooting him O'Connell retrieved his gunny sack and threw it overboard, looking at Evelyn.

"Can you swim?"

"Well of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it!" She replied. He picked her up and Sam jumped into the river right as he threw her overboard after his sack. They reached the shore and she and O'Connell spotted Beni and the Americans on the far shore.

"Hey, O'Connell! Looks to me like I got all the horses!"

"Hey, Beni!" Sam called back. "Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!" Beni looked around and started kicking and splashing angrily at the water.