All this gave me the notion that the hills were full of the enemy, and I grew as restive as the Indian.

The crackle of a branch startled me, and the movement of a scared beast brought my heart to my throat.
Then from a high place he saw something which sent us both crawling into the thicket.

We made a circuit of several miles round the head of a long ravine, and came to a steep bank of red screes.

Up this we wormed our way, as flat as snakes, with our noses in the dusty earth.

I was dripping with sweat, and cursing to myself this new madness of Shalah's.