"Go back to Jericho ?" "Nay, for there they will come too.

Follow up this gully till you reach the footpath a mile away, and by it walk to the village; so you will miss these robbers." "That is a good plan," said Nehushta.

"Come, lady." "Whither are you going, Caleb ?" asked Miriam, lingering, since she saw that he did not mean to accompany them.
"I?
Oh, I shall hide among the rocks near by till the men are passed, and then go to seek that hyena which has been worrying the sheep.

I have tracked him down and may catch him as he comes from his hole at sunset.
That is why I have brought my bow and arrows." "Come," broke in Nehushta impatiently, "come.

The lad well knows how to guard himself." "Be careful, Caleb, that you get no hurt from the hyena," said Miriam, doubtfully, as Nehushta seized her by the wrist and dragged her away.
"It is strange," she added as they went, "that Caleb should choose this evening to go hunting." "Unless I mistake, it is a human hyena whom he hunts," answered Nehushta shortly.