[Both Sides the Border by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookBoth Sides the Border CHAPTER 14: In Hiding 14/36
Even then, let him hide as much as may be, behind brushwood and rock, until he gets down.
When he has swum the river, let him make a wide detour round Parton, so as to come down to the stables without being noticed. "I shall not be very long away.
'Tis scarce likely, among these hills, that I shall find any place that we can crawl into; and I think we shall have to content ourselves with lying down among the heather.
I must find a spot where no one, on any hill above, can look down on us. We shall be quite safe from any party moving along on the same level as ourselves." Oswald had gone but a little distance, when he determined that no better place could be found than the plateau itself.
This extended, for two or three hundred yards from the edge, looking down into the valley. Beyond, the ground sloped sharply down again into a deep hollow; and beyond, it was broken into rounded swells, rising one above another.
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