Yet Robert thought he saw a shifting figure blacker than the shadows in which it moved.
Marie and Lizette took away the silver and china and Monsieur Jolivet went ahead to show them to their room.

Then something whistled in the darkness, and an arrow buried to the head of the barb stood out in the rear wall of the inn.

The three seized their rifles, but the darker shadow in the shadows was gone.

Tayoga broke off the arrow level with the wall, and threw the shaft into the garden.
"It was Tandakora," he said, "seeking revenge.

But since the arrow has sped wrong he will not loose another shaft tonight.