What do you think best ?" "Even if you succeeded in overawing these two, we would have no way of securing them.

An alarm would be given before we could get beyond reach.

Our only hope of escape lies in getting out of here unseen." "Yes, and before Cateras is discovered." "He gave no orders to the guard to return ?" "No; but he will be missed after a while and sought for.

We cannot count on any long delay, and when it is found that he has been knocked out, and we have disappeared, every inch of this cave will be searched.
There is no place to hide, and only the two ways by which to get out." "Then, let's go back and try the other," she urged.

"That opens directly into the valley and is probably not guarded.