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behind them.
    “Jump, Zack!” Jeff hopped up on the wall and helped Zack over.
    They found themselves in another garden.
    “Great. Now what?” Zack searched for a way out.
    “This way.” Ankhesenpaaten was sitting in the garden. She pointed to a passageway. “It leads to my rooms. Brown Jeff Brown will know the way from there.”
    Horemheb and the soldiers scrambled over the wall.
    “Hurry,” Ankhesenpaaten whispered. Then she shouted, “The prisoners have escaped! Help!”
    Jeff ran through the queen’s suite and down the hall. “Here’s our room. You fire up the computer and I’ll try and keep them out.”
    He edged the heavy bed over in front of the door and stacked a wooden table and two chairs on top of it.
    There was a creaking noise outside thedoor. It was Horemheb and his men. “Call the entire king’s guard and bring a battering ram,” Jeff heard Horemheb order.
    “I don’t want to rush you or anything,” Jeff said, leaning with all his weight against the door. “But we have a little problem here.”
    Zack wiped his forehead. “I don’t get it. I was sure it would work. The satellite dish
should
function as the necessary conductor.”
    There was a loud thud and the door opened a few inches. “Again! Hit it again!”
    Jeff’s mind raced. He had been responsible for getting them here. Now he had to do something. His eyes fastened on the crocodile statue. “That’s it!”
    He grabbed the crocodile and jammed it by its tail into the satellite dish.
    The door broke off its hinges and crashed to the floor, smashing the furniture to kindling.
    Horemheb stepped into the room.
    It was empty.

C HAPTER 16
    “Now, if you’ll all come this way …”
    Zack opened his eyes. “We’re back!”
    A big grin spread across Jeff’s face. “You did it, genius.”
    “It was your quick thinking that did the trick.”
    “Excuse me, gentlemen, but you’re holding up the tour.” The guide cleared his throat. “In this area we are conducting experiments dealing with time and space. Once again, feel free to look, but don’t touch.”
    “Do you get the feeling we’ve been here before?” Jeff asked.
    Zack nodded. “The Time Bender must have a glitch in it. We came back earlier than we left. This is the same tour we took before.”
    The group of students wandered through the room looking at the various workstations.
    Zack and Jeff rushed to the back and found Dr. Cranium seated at the Time Bender. He glanced up at them. “Are you the ones interested in time bending?” His eyes traveled to the fiber rod sticking out of the top of the machine.
    “He knows,” Jeff muttered.
    The old scientist’s eyes lit up. “What was it like? You found the secret!”
    “We have a lot to tell you, Dr. Cranium. The main thing is that your machine definitely works. We traveled all the way back to the time of King Tut.” Zack beamed.
    “Shhh!” the doctor warned. “We can’t tell anyone about this yet. They would try to steal it. I’ll meet you later, after the presentation, and you can tell me all about your adventures. Go now. Your group is leaving.”
    “Right,” Zack agreed. “We’ll meet you here as soon as it’s over.” The boys drifted out the door behind the rest of the group.
    “He sure is gonna be surprised when we tell him what we’ve seen.” Jeff pretended to bounce a basketball down the hall.
    “Too bad you didn’t get to bring your ball back with you,” Zack said sympathetically. “I feel kind of bad about that.”
    “Aw, don’t worry about it. Someday I’ll get another one.” Jeff stopped. “Wait a minute. Are we going where I think we’re going?”
    Zack nodded. “To the presentation dinner.”
    “Not me.” Jeff turned and started back in the direction of the laboratory.
    “Where are you going?”
    “Back to the Time Bender. I’m gonna try and talk it into taking us to the future. Maybe it’ll drop us off at an arcade.”
    “Us?”
    “Sure. You don’t want to go to that