Ned's heart swelled with rage at the sight.
Order and discipline seemed to be lacking.

Men came and went as they pleased.

Fully twenty of them were making a shelter of canvas and thatch beside the hut.

Others began to build the fire higher in order to fend off the wet and cold.

Ned did not see that the chance of a rescue was improved, but the Panther felt a sudden glow when his eyes alighted upon something dark at the edge of the woods.