We made for the opposite direction--and as fast as possible.
"Nothing happened that day or night.

Next morning, creeping up a slope, we caught sight of a suspicious glitter a mile or two away in the direction we were going.

We sought shelter in a small ravine.

In a little while, over the hill and half a mile away from us, came about two hundred of these fellows, marching along.
"And they were indeed Darius's men.

Men of that Persia which had been dead for millenniums.