This was a civilized country full of roads and railways.

I must some time and somewhere come out of the woods.

He could have all the roads watched, and the telephone would set everyone on my track within a radius of fifty miles.
Besides, he would soon pick up my trail in the village I had visited that morning.

From the map I learned that it was called Greif, and it was likely to live up to that name with me.
Presently I came to a rocky knoll which rose out of the forest.

Keeping well in shelter I climbed to the top and cautiously looked around me.
Away to the east I saw the vale of a river with broad fields and church-spires.