I shall keep Maka on guard a little back from the entrance to the passage.

He will lie on the ground, and can hear footsteps long before they reach us.

It is barely possible that some of them might enter by the great cleft in the cave on the other side of the lake, but in that case they would have to swim across, and I shall station that new African on the ledge of which you have heard, and if he sees any of them coming in that direction, I know he will give very quick warning.

I hardly think, though, that they would trust themselves to be picked off while swimming." "And you ?" said she.
"Oh, I shall keep my eyes on all points," said he, "as far as I can.

I begin to feel a spirit of fight rising up within me.