Pray go at once, for the sooner you go the sooner you can bring me back news of what is being done up there." Cuitcatl saw the justice of Roger's reasoning.
"I may, at least, throw them off the scent," he said, "and see about preparing for your flight.

You promise to hide in the bamboos there, if searchers should come in this direction ?" "Certainly I do.

I will do all in my power to conceal myself, and will only fight if there be no other way." Cuitcatl at once glided noiselessly off, keeping as before in the shadow of the bushes.

For an hour and a half Roger remained alone.
He was sitting under the shadow of the bamboos, and could in a moment withdraw himself among them.
At last he thought he heard a slight noise, and drew back towards the thick canes.

A moment later, however, he stepped forward, as a figure he at once recognized advanced across a patch of moonlight from the next clump of shrubs.
"All is well so far," Cuitcatl said.