It was early in the morning, and the Folk were not yet up.

The surprise was complete.

I was cut off from the way up the cliff to my cave.

Before I knew it I had dashed into the double-cave,--the cave where Lop-Ear had first eluded me long years before, and where old Saber-Tooth had come to discomfiture when he pursued the two Folk.

By the time I had got through the connecting passage between the two caves, I discovered that Red-Eye was not following me.