“Where’s Ned, I wonder?” he thought.
Then he cried out softly.
“Ned! Oh, Ned!”
The next minute he gave a jump. Almost in his ear he heard his comrade’s reply.
“Hello, Herc, all right?”
“Yes, how about you?”
“O. K., although I don’t see how we escaped injury. Gracious, that was a ride!”
“Yes, a kind of chute the chutes that I don’t care to tackle again. Those rascals must have followed us out to the Pyramids to get revenge. I recognized one of them as the fellow I cracked in the eye. I reckon they ran us into one of those holes that the guide warned us about, and had hard work to save themselves!”
“Well, the question now is, how are we going to get out of here?”
“Yes, and that’s some question, too. Wait; I’ll strike a match and maybe we can get some bearings.”