“If the camels go well, we might do it in six hours, in five hours from now. But it will be difficult to find the place in a sand-storm.”
“What is this ruin? Another Sheikh’s tomb?”
“No, no. This very great ruin. How do you call a mosque of the ancients?”
“A temple?”
“That is it. It is the Temple of Osiris. Very grand ruin. There is plenty shelter there for all, camels and all.”
“Is there any shelter nearer?”
“We could go back where I fetch the camels from. About two hours now.”
“How long will this storm last?”
“It is a khamsin; it may last three days.”
“Then we must go on and find the temple if we can.”