Look for him straightway." There they hunted, but the man was not to be found.

Nor was it his weapon that had ended Tregoz.
Then Owen said in a voice that had grown very stern: "Who was the sentry who should have been here ?" The men looked at one another, and the chief of them answered at last that the man was from Dartmoor, one of such a name.

And then one looked more closely at the arms Tregoz wore, and cried out that they were the very arms of the missing sentry, or so like them that one must wait for daylight to say for certain that they were not they.
It was plain enough then.

In such arms Tregoz could well walk through the village itself unnoticed, as one of the palace guards would be, and so when the time came he would climb from some hiding in the fosse and take the place of his countryman on the rampart, and the watchful captain would see but a sentry there and deem that all was well.
Yet this did not tell us who was the one who had wrestled with and slain him, and Owen told what had been done, while I went and brought the bow and arrows from the foot of the rampart, in hopes that they might tell us by mark or make if more than Tregoz and the sentry were in this business.

Then I looked at my window, and, though narrow, it was as fair a mark in the moonlight as one would need.