Somehow it doesn't seem as if it can be real." "It's quite real," said Mr.Codd, as he sprinkled some dry dust round the crack of the stone to give it an appearance of not having been disturbed.

"There's no doubt of it." When he had finished they picked up their tools and set off on their return journey to the camp.

The sun had disappeared behind the jungle when they left the courtyard of the Three Elephants' Heads and ascended the stone steps towards the inner moat.

They crossed the bridge, and entered the outer city in silence.

The place was very dreary at that hour of the day, and to Codd, who was of an imaginative turn of mind, it seemed as if faces out of the long deserted past were watching him from every house.