And when I looked at him in question I saw that his face was growing pale and anxious, so that I thought we must be near the place which we sought.

So it was, for after we had left that stone some two score fathoms behind us, as we passed up a narrow valley, there opened out yet another, wilder and more narrow still, and at its mouth he would have us leave the men and go on with him.
Now, we had seen no man, but when it came to this, Howel said: "By all right of caution, we should have an outpost or two on those ridges.

If we are going into this place it will not do to be trapped there." So without question Evan pointed out places whence men could watch well enough against any possible comers, but he told me that we were close to the place we would see, and a call from our horns would bring help at once if it were needed.

Howel sent men by twos to the hilltops, and the rest dismounted and waited where we stayed them, while we three went on together up the valley.

I bade one of the men give Evan his spear, for he had none.
Grey and warm it was there, for the clouds hung overhead, and no breeze could find its way into the depths of this place, and it was very silent, but it was not the lost valley itself.