Then, with a swift and easy movement, he laid his arms and shield noiselessly upon the rocks, and, dropping on all fours beside a pool, he dipped his muzzle down and drank just like an animal.

I could hear the thirsty sucking of his lips from where I lay.

He drank and drank as though he never meant to stop, and when at last his frame could hold no more, he rose with evident reluctance.

He picked his weapons up, and then stood again to listen.

Hearing nothing, he turned and sharply moved away.