"Tell Him Who Speaks for Luata," he said, "that Fosh-bal-soj we could not find; but that in returning we found this creature within the temple, hiding. It must be the same that Fosh-bal-soj captured in the Sto-lu country during the last darkness.
The first day they remained in hiding, eating only the dried food that Bradley had brought with him from the temple storeroom, and the next night they set out again up the river, continuing steadily on until almost dawn, when they came to low hills where the river wound through a gorge--it was little more than rivulet now, the water clear and cold and filled with fish similar to brook trout though much larger.
The gale that was blowing was, he believed, the cause of the delay in getting the Kincaid under way, and if it continued to blow until night then the chances were all in his favour, for he knew that there was little likelihood of the ape-man attempting to navigate the tortuous channel of the Ugambi while darkness lay upon the surface of the water,
hiding the many bars and the numerous small islands which are scattered over the expanse of the river's mouth.
There was no evidence that another had discovered the forgotten wealth since last the ape-man had visited its
hiding place.
Here we lay in
hiding all day, and on the following night, swept on by a flood tide and a fresh wind, we crossed San Pablo Bay in two hours and ran up Petaluma Creek.
While Sergeant Cuff still left me free, I had to choose--and at once-- between destroying the nightgown, or
hiding it in some safe place, at some safe distance from the house.
So he clothed himself,
hiding his nakedness, and, leaving Galazi, descended to that kraal where the old woman had dwelt, and there gave it out that he was a young man, a chief's son from a far place, who sought a wife.
While we were eating, the dervish happened to mention that in a spot only a little way off from where we were sitting, there was hidden a treasure so great that if my eighty camels were loaded till they could carry no more, the
hiding place would seem as full as if it had never been touched.
People were
hiding in trenches and cellars, and many of the survivors had made off towards Woking village and Send.
Sir Nathaniel realised that Adam was right; the White Worm had no supernatural powers and could not harm them until she discovered their
hiding place.
The visitor's daughter was already smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl of thirteen,
hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room.
"I searched the chambers carefully and waited in
hiding for the return of the slave, Turan, if he were temporarily away; but he came not.