I pointed to this, as though I wished to go up.

Almah hesitated for a moment, and seemed to shrink back, but at length, overcoming her reluctance, began the ascent.

A flight of stony steps led up.

On reaching the top, I found it about thirty feet long by fifteen wide, with a high stone table in the middle.

At that moment, however, I scarce noticed the pyramid summit, and I only describe it now because I was fated before long to see it with different feelings.