Steep and crooked as this was, we could hear them, though as yet if it were a man or men who came we could not see.

I pulled the prince back into cover, where the rocks hid us from any one who came down the stream, and I loosened my sword in its sheath, for I could not be so sure that it might not be sorely needed.
The rattle of stones came nearer, and I saw Evan hurrying to us.

He also had heard, and he had made shift to tie the horses to some point of rock, and he ran with our spears in his hand to join us.
"Get to the other side of the pool, Thane," he said.

"It may be the band of men who wrought the burning." "No," I answered.

"Listen.