Michael's anxiety may be imagined. He could no longer doubt that a party of Tartars had recently passed that way, and yet it was impossible that they could be the Emir's soldiers, for they could not have passed without being seen.
Zalantzarik ez zegoen, tatariarren andana bat berriki igaro zen bidearen alderdi hartan aurrera, eta, hala ere, ezin inola ere izan emirraren soldaduak, ez baitzen posible hari aurreratzea konturatu gabe.