We all looked,
carefully. Everyone gazed at us politely, kindly, and with eager interest.
No one was impertinent. We could catch quite a bit of the talk now,
and all they said seemed pleasant enough.
Well--before nightfall we were all safely back in our big room.
The damage we had done was quite ignored; the beds as smooth and
comfortable as before, new clothing and towels supplied. The only
thing those women did was to illuminate the gardens at night, and
to set an extra watch. But they called us to account next day.
Our three tutors, who had not joined in the recapturing expedition,
had been quite busy in preparing for us, and now made explanation.
They knew well we would make for our machine, and also
that there was no other way of getting down--alive. So our flight
had troubled no one; all they did was to call the inhabitants to
keep an eye on our movements all along the edge of the forest
between the two points. It appeared that many of those nights
we had been seen, by careful ladies sitting snugly in big trees by
the riverbed, or up among the rocks.
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