Brother, creep to that rock and look if any men are moving." The Essene obeyed, and answered, "None; and they cannot see us from the wall." Ithiel motioned to him to return.
"Does she sleep sound ?" he asked of Nehushta, pointing to Miriam.
"Like the dead." Then, after another whispered conference, the pair of them crept round the angle of the rock.

Bidding Nehushta follow them, they lifted the sleeping Miriam, and carried her between them through a dense growth of shrubs to another rock.

Here they moved some grass and pushed aside a stone, revealing a hole not much larger than a jackal would make.

Into this the brother entered, heels first.

Then Nehushta, by his directions, taking the feet of the senseless Miriam, with her help he bore her into the hole, that opened presently into a wide passage.