On they crept, Suzanne now limping painfully, for her ankle had begun to swell, and now crawling upon her hands and knees, for Zinti had no longer the strength to carry her and the child.

Thus they covered three miles in perhaps as many hours.

At last, with something like a sob, Suzanne sank to the earth.
"Zinti, I can walk no more," she said.

"Either I must rest or die." He looked at her and saw that she spoke truth, for she was quite outworn.
"Is it so ?" he said, "then we must stay here till the morning, nor do I think that you will take hurt, for Bull-Head will scarcely care to cross that pass by night." Suzanne shook her head and answered: "He will have begun to climb it at the rising of the moon.

Hear me, Zinti.