We should get there after the darkening.

It seemed he had permission to ride with me instead of 'Mwanga, who had no love for the job.

How he managed this I do not know; but Arcoll's men had their own ways of doing things.

He undertook to set me free when the first shot was fired at the ford.

Meantime I bade him leave me, to avert suspicion.
There is a story of one of King Arthur's knights--Sir Percival, I think--that once, riding through a forest, he found a lion fighting with a serpent.