They could see only a few yards over the lake, and must depend there upon ear to warn them of a new attack that way.

The fact added to their worries, but luckily Tayoga, with his amazing powers of hearing, joined them, establishing at once what was in effect a listening post, although it was not called then by that name.

Wilton drew much strength from the presence of the Onondaga, while it made the confidence of Grosvenor supreme.
"Now we'll surely know if they come," he said.
A long while passed without a sign, but they did not relax their vigilance a particle, and Tayoga interpreted the darkness for them.
"There was a little wind," he said, after a while, "but it is almost dead now.

The waves are running no longer.

I hear a slight sound to the south which was not there before." "I hear nothing, Tayoga," said Robert.
"Perhaps not, Dagaeoga, but I hear it, which is enough.