"What then shall we do?" asked Miriam. "Go back to Jericho?"
"Nay, for there they will come too. Follow up this gully till you reach
the footpath a mile away, and by it walk to the village; so you will
miss these robbers."
"That is a good plan," said Nehushta. "Come, lady."
"Whither are you going, Caleb?" asked Miriam, lingering, since she saw
that he did not mean to accompany them.
"I? Oh, I shall hide among the rocks near by till the men are passed,
and then go to seek that hyena which has been worrying the sheep. I have
tracked him down and may catch him as he comes from his hole at sunset.
That is why I have brought my bow and arrows."
"Come," broke in Nehushta impatiently, "come. The lad well knows how to
guard himself."
"Be careful, Caleb, that you get no hurt from the hyena," said Miriam,
doubtfully, as Nehushta seized her by the wrist and dragged her away.
"It is strange," she added as they went, "that Caleb should choose this
evening to go hunting."
"Unless I mistake, it is a human hyena whom he hunts," answered Nehushta
shortly. "One of those men struck him, and he desires to wash the wound
with his blood."
"Oh, surely not! Nou. That would be taking vengeance, and revenge is
evil.
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