Tell me, Frank, how many men hast thou ?" "Three-and-twenty, is it not so ?" "Yea, it is so.

Tell me, Bara Miyan, this whole pyramid--" "Skulls, yea." "This is the Pyramid of Ayeshah that I have heard strange tales of ?" the Master demanded, feeling even his hard nerves quiver.
"The Pyramid of Ayeshah." "No myth, then, but reality," the Master commented, fascinated in spite of himself.

"Even as the famous Tower of Skulls at Jerba, in Tunis!" "Thou hast said it, O Frank.

Here be more than ten-score thousand skulls of the enemies of Islam, of blasphemers against the Prophet, of those who have penetrated the Empty Abodes, of those who have sought to carry gold from El Barr.

It is nearly done, this pyramid.