There were no stars to guide him, and a slight mist had begun to fall.

There was but little wind, but this was sufficient to give a direction to the rain.
Walter noticed this, and at once struck out in a direction which kept the rain falling upon the right side of his face; and he knew that, by so continuing, he was going in a tolerably straight line.

As near as he could tell he walked for two hours, and then, utterly exhausted, lay down on the lee side of a turf wall.
There was, as yet, no gleam of light in the sky, and in a very few minutes he was again sound asleep.

He woke up with a feeling of bitter cold, and, on rising, found that his limbs were completely stiffened by the wet.

It was morning now, the wind had got up, and a driving rain shut out the view on all sides.