Go as quiet as you can, lads, and don't make the slightest noise.

Just creep along until we are three or four hundred yards away.

You may be sure that they are listening." For a quarter of a mile they moved very cautiously.
"Now I think we are safe," Dave said, breaking into a run.
At a steady trot they kept on down the gorge.

Just as they reached its mouth, they heard a faint yell in the distance.
"They have found we are off.

They will be five minutes and more before they have brought up their horses and got over the rocks, and they will go pretty cautious, because they will be expecting to be ambushed.