The pallid moon went wholly out, and the last of the stars left.

But they had ample wood inside the camp and they built the fires higher, the flames lighting up the tanned eager faces of the men and gleaming along the polished barrels of their long rifles.

Willet had inspected the supply of ammunition and he considered it ample.

That fear was removed from his mind.
Tayoga went to the edge of the forest again, and reported no apparent movement in the force of St.Luc.But they had built a great fire of their own, and did not mean to go away.

The attack would come some time or other, but when or how no man could tell.
Robert, who could do as he pleased, concluded to stay with Wilton on the shore of the lake, where the darkness was continually creeping closer to the shore.