There was space only for two, and that space was already occupied.

Also, they had me at a disadvantage, and, what of the scratching and hair-pulling I received, I was glad to retreat.

I slept that night, and for many nights, in the connecting passage of the double-cave.

From my experience it seemed reasonably safe.

As the two Folk had dodged old Saber-Tooth, and as I had dodged Red-Eye, so it seemed to me that I could dodge the hunting animals by going back and forth between the two caves.
I had forgotten the wild dogs.