And I gat me to this ledge, and did eat and drink, and presently
I slept, and scarce had thought of Naani in the moment of my
slumbering; for a great weariness was upon me, the which I do think
to have come by reason that I was not yet proper rested from the
task of the day that was gone before that one.
Now I waked very sudden, maybe seven hours after; and I had
knowledge within me that my spirit did wot of some nigh danger. And
I gat upward from the rock, very quiet, and had the Diskos ready in
my hand. And I lookt swift about me in the moment that I did wake;
yet did see nothing; for there was naught on the ledge with me.
And I crept to the edge, and lookt downward, and lo! I did see
that there came up the rock two Humped Men; and they did climb very
swift and silent; and I
