And they were after him! He could hear them.

Nepeese was following almost as swiftly as he could run.

Suddenly he turned into a cleft between two great rocks.

Twenty feet in, his way was barred, and he ran back.

When he darted out, straight up the canyon, Nepeese was not a dozen yards behind him, and he saw Pierrot almost at her side.
The Willow gave a cry.
"Mana--mana--there he is!" She caught her breath, and darted into a copse of young balsams where Baree had disappeared.