Be careful, should we be so received, lest any of you betray the trick.

Be wise and silent, I say, and do what we shall tell you from time to time, if you would live to look upon the sun." Peter fell back astonished, while Leonard and Francisco turned their attention to the approaching soldiers of the People of the Mist.
They advanced slowly and in silence, but their measured tread shook the earth.

At last they halted about a hundred and fifty yards away, presenting a truly terrifying spectacle to the little band among the rocks.

So far as Leonard could see, there was not a man among them who stood less than six feet in height, and they were broad in proportion--hugely made.

In appearance they were neither handsome nor repulsive, but solemn-looking, large-eyed, thick-haired--between black and yellow in hue--and wearing an expression of dreadful calm, like the calm of an archaic statue.