They heard its impact against a tree trunk beyond and a confusion of small sounds caused by the target's hasty retreat.

Next, after a time of silence, Nalasu told Jerry silently to retrieve the arrow.

He had been well trained and long trained, for with no sound even to Nalasu's ears keener than seeing men's ears, he followed the direction of the arrow's impact against the tree and brought the arrow back in his mouth.
Again Nalasu waited, until the rustlings of a fresh drawing-in of the circle could be heard, whereupon Nalasu, Jerry accompanying him, picked up all his arrows and moved soundlessly half-way around the circle.

Even as they moved, a Snider exploded that was aimed in the general direction of the spot just vacated.
And the blind man and the dog, from midnight to dawn, successfully fought off twelve men equipped with the thunder of gunpowder and the wide-spreading, deep-penetrating, mushroom bullets of soft lead.

And the blind man defended himself only with a bow and a hundred arrows.