And Madcap Max followed in the dark the strange creature who had found him alone and suffering in the cave beneath the great pyramid.
Followed! But where?
CHAPTER V.
GIRZILLA.
With the greatest confidence in the strange Arab girl, Madcap Max followed her, without asking any question until she suddenly extinguished the torch.
“Why did you do that?” he inquired.
The girl did not answer in words, but dextrously placed her hand over his mouth and held it there so tightly that Max could scarcely breathe.
He struggled to release himself, but she was strong, and to add to her power, she whispered:
“Get free and I’ll kill thee!”
However disagreeable it might be it was better to have a pretty girl’s hand over his mouth than to be killed, and therefore Max made no further resistance.
A slight noise, like the dropping of water on rocks, attracted his attention.