Chapter 18 THE BATS

Rekka was a mile behind.

"It will take us fully an hour yet," said Dr. Cairn, "to reach the pyramid, although it appears so near."

Indeed, in the violet dusk, the great mastabah Pyramid of Méyd?m seemed already to loom above them, although it was quite four miles away. The narrow path along which they trotted their donkeys ran through the fer