Here we found him waiting for us and our meal ready, for food was always brought to us by the palace servants.

When we had eaten and these men had cleared away, we lit our pipes and fed the dog Pharaoh upon the scraps that had been reserved for him.

Then I told Oliver about the spy whom I had caught tracking him and Maqueda.
"Well, what of it ?" he said, colouring in his tell-tale fashion; "she only took me to see what she believed to be an ancient inscription on a column in that northern aisle." "Then she'd have done better to take me, my boy," said Higgs.

"What was the character like ?" "Don't know," he answered guiltily.

"She could not find it again." An awkward silence followed, which I broke.
"Oliver," I said, "I don't think you ought to go on sleeping here alone.
You have too many enemies in this place." "Rubbish," he answered, "though it's true Pharaoh seemed uneasy last night, and that once I woke up and thought I heard footsteps in the court outside.