Naught has been disturbed here for many a long day.

Let us pursue our search elsewhere.

No fugitive could have passed by that spot since yesterday, when Brother Emmanuel was last seen." The baron could not but assent.

He looked once again at the carving, but he had had no real reason to suspect aught, and he turned away to go elsewhere.

Another grip of the arm showed Edred how Julian's feelings had been stirred; but the lads did not even look at each other as they moved on behind the company, and they now hardly heard or heeded what passed during the remaining hour of that long search.
For them the crisis had passed when they turned from the room where the secret lay.