They, too, were weary and resting.
Then Dick was conscious of a tall, thin figure beside him.

Warner had awakened, too.
"Dick," he said, "it can't be more than an hour till dawn." "Just about that I should say." "And the scene, that is as far as we can see it, is most peaceful." Dick made no answer, but stood a long time listening.

Then he said: "My ears are pretty good, George, and sound will carry very far in this silence just before the dawn.

I thought I heard a faint sound like the clank of a cannon." "I think I hear it, too," said Warner, "and here is the dawn closer at hand than we thought.

Look at those cold rays over there, behind that hill in the east.