He was without haste, and expressed neither hope nor discouragement.

But he realised more and more clearly that Juanita was in genuine danger.

By one or two moves in this subtle warfare, Sarrion had forced his adversary to unmask his defenses.

Some of the obstructions behind which Juanita was now concealed could scarcely have originated in chance.
Marcos had, in the course of his long antagonism against wolf or bear or boar in the Central Pyrenees, more than once experienced that sharp shock of astonishment and fear to which the big-game hunter can scarcely remain indifferent when he finds himself opposed by an unmistakable sign of an intelligence equal to his own or an instinct superior to it, subtly meeting his subtle attack.

This he experienced now, and knew that he himself was being watched and his every action forestalled.