That it led straight east into all the great cities she never doubted, and she must find it before she was pursued.

That man would be angry, _angry_ if he came and found her gone! He was not beyond shooting her for giving him the slip in this way.
The more she thought over it, the more frightened she became, till every bit of rough way, and every barrier that kept her from going forward quickly, seemed terrible to her.

A bob-cat shot across the way just ahead, and the green gleam of its eyes as it turned one swift glance at this strange intruder in its chosen haunts made her catch her breath and put her hand on the pistols.
They were climbing a long time--it seemed hours to the girl--when at last they came to a space where a better view of the land was possible.

It was high, and sloped away on three sides.

To her looking now in the clear night the outline of a mountain ahead of her became distinct, and the lay of the land was not what she had supposed.