"Admirable! This way, please, Miss Adams.

Bring the ladies here, Mansoor.

There is not an instant to be lost." There was a part of the plateau which was invisible from the plain, and here in feverish haste they built a little cairn.

Many flaky slabs of stone were lying about, and it did not take long to prop the largest of these against a rock, so as to make a lean-to, and then to put two side-pieces to complete it.

The slabs were of the same colour as the rock, so that to a casual glance the hiding-place was not very visible.
The two ladies were squeezed into this, and they crouched together, Sadie's arms thrown round her aunt.