Moreover, if the alarm were raised now, they would escape into the fort, and await another chance.
But they neither heard nor saw a hostile presence.

In truth, they saw nothing that betokened a siege, save the dim light flickering several hundred yards ahead of them, and they resumed their advance, bent so low that they could drop flat at the first menace.

Their eyes looked continually for a sentinel, but they saw none.
"Don't you think the wind is rising a bit, Tayoga ?" whispered the hunter.
"Yes," replied the Onondaga.
"And it feels damper to the face ?" "Yes, Great Bear." "And it doesn't mean rain, because the air's too cold, but it does mean snow, for which the air is just right, and I think it's coming, as the clouds grow thicker and thicker all the time." "Which proves that we are favored.

Tododaho from his great and shining star, that we cannot see tonight, looks down upon us and will help us, since we have tried to do the things that are right.

We wish the snow to come, because we wish a veil about us, while we confound our enemies, and Tododaho will send it." He spoke devoutly and Robert admired and respected his faith, the center of which was Manitou, and Manitou in the mind of the Christian boy was the same as God.