The three pairs of eyes from behind the tall grass were glued to the man's face.

They saw him start, then move his hand to the left, and as the canoe went stealthily out of their view round the south side, they heard the sullen plunge made by a crocodile as, disturbed from his sleep, he took to the waters.
Then the three crept back to the boat.

"Pull her through the screen," whispered the hunter, as he caught up his rifle, "but make no noise;" and he took up another position ashore, this time facing the other end of the channel.
With great caution the boys coaxed the Okapi through the trailing branches, so that she would be hidden from view if the natives looked up the channel.

Then they waited and waited for ages before the hunter showed himself.
"Well ?" they asked in a whisper.
"They have passed on." "And ?" they said, watching his face.
"I don't quite like it.

They may have no suspicions, but I think they have; for one man pointed up in this direction." "If they suspected anything they would have stopped surely." "Perhaps not.