More than once she imagined she saw those she sought.

That they were there upon the hill she had no doubt; that they must come down and near she knew; when the people at the well were all served they would come.
Now, quite at the base of the bluff there was a tomb which had more than once attracted Amrah by its wide gaping.

A stone of large dimensions stood near its mouth.

The sun looked into it through the hottest hours of the day, and altogether it seemed uninhabitable by anything living, unless, perchance, by some wild dogs returning from scavenger duty down in Gehenna.

Thence, however, and greatly to her surprise, the patient Egyptian beheld two women come, one half supporting, half leading, the other.
They were both white-haired; both looked old; but their garments were not rent, and they gazed about them as if the locality were new.