ten in the evening
`` We have the sun , '' one of the Arabs answered ; `` but even without that we could find our way , and do so even on the darkest night . The horses know the way as well as we do . When they have once journeyed over a track they never forget it , and even did they swerve a little it would not matter , for they can smell water miles away , and would always , if unguided , make for it . '' At ten in the evening Edgar rode into the Bedouins ' encampment , having passed over eighty miles since leaving the Pyramid . Sidi 's party had arrived there half an hour earlier , and he found that his friend was now in the tent of the sheik . Edgar went there at once , and Sidi introduced him to his uncle , who was some years older than his father . `` I am rejoiced to see you , '' the sheik said gravely .