To this spot she made her way under cover of the darkness--for though she still greatly feared to be alone at night, her pressing need conquered her fears--and found that the hole was yet there, for a tall weed growing in its mouth had caused it to be overlooked by those whose duty it was to mend the fence.
With her assegai she widened it a little, then drew her lithe shape through it, and lying hidden till the guard had passed, climbed the two stone walls beyond.

Once she was free of the town, she set her course by the stars and started forward at a steady run.
"If my strength holds I shall yet be in time to warn him," she muttered to herself.

"Ah! friend Hokosa, this new madness of yours has blunted your wits that once were sharp enough.

You have set me free, and now you shall learn how I can use my freedom.

Not for nothing have I been your pupil, Hokosa the fox." Before the dawn broke Noma was thirty miles from the Great Place, and before the next dawn she was a hundred.