But it was enough, for it woke up the guards who glared about them and threatened Janee with their great spears, also they went to sleep no more, but began to talk together, though what they said I could not hear, for I was hiding on the floor of the room.

After this, knowing that I could do no good and might do harm and get myself killed, I crept out of the house as I had crept in, and crawled back to my tree." "Why did you not come to me ?" I asked.
"Because I still hoped I might be able to help Sad-Eyes, Baas.

Also I wanted to see what happened, and I knew that I could not bring you here in time to be any good.

Yet it is true I thought of coming though I did not know the road." "Perhaps you were right." "At the first dawn," continued Hans, "the great men who are called Amahagger rose and ate what was left over from the night before.

Then they gathered themselves together and went to the house.