His anxiety for Raymond was sharpened by this long inaction.

He seemed to have been standing for ages.

What were the others doing?
Not a sound reached him between the lengthening pauses of the wind.

His companion stood drawn up motionless beside him; and so they waited, straining eye and ear into the darkness, conscious that others were waiting and listening also.
_At last_ in the distance came a faint sound of wheels.

Charles and Brooks instinctively drew a long breath; and Charles for the first time believed the alarm of poachers had not been a false one after all.