It was just a wall of red and yellow and brown, and it was hard to believe that men seeking his life lay there.

By and by the east began to turn gray, and over the clearing fell the long shadows of coming twilight.

Then Paul awakened Henry, and the two watched together.
The shadows lengthened and deepened, a light wind arose and moaned among the oaks and beeches, a heavy, dark veil was drawn across the sky, and the forest melted into a black blur.

Now Henry looked with all his eyes and listened with all his ears, because he knew that what the warriors wanted, the covering veil of the night, had come.
It was a very thick and black night, too, and that was against him and Paul, as the objects in the clearing were hidden almost as well now as anything in the forest.

Hence he trusted more to ear than to eye.