"It is not possible to look for such treachery among our own men." Then we went into our room to show the captain what had been done.
And thence the two arrows had already been taken.

The hole in the plaster where the first struck was yet there, and the slit made by the second in the tough hide of the bear was to be seen when I turned over the fur, but who had taken them we could not tell.
Only, it was plain that here in the palace some one was in the plot and had taken away what might be proof of who the archer had been, not knowing, as I suppose, that the attempt had failed so utterly.
For an arrow will often prove a good witness, as men will use only some special pattern that they are sure of, and will often mark them that they may claim them and their own game in the woodlands if they are found in some stricken beast that has got away for a time.

It was more than likely that Tregoz would have been careful to use only such arrows as he knew well in a matter needing such close shooting as this.

Indeed, we afterwards found men who knew the two shafts from the rampart as those of the Cornishman, without doubt.
This I did not like at all, for the going of these arrows brought the danger to our very door, as it were.

Nor did the captain, for he himself kept watch over us for the rest of that night, and afterwards there was always a sentry in the passage that led to our room.
We were silent as we lay down again, and sleep was long in coming.
I puzzled over all this, for beside the taking of the arrows there was the question of who the slayer of Tregoz might be, and who had written the letter that should have warned us.
In all truth, it was not good to sleep in the moonlight! Somewhat of the same kind Owen was thinking, for of a sudden he said to me: "Those arrows were meant for me, Oswald.