About midnight
Wyatt was too cautious to permit a fire , and they ate cold food in the darkness . After a while , all slept but two of the Shawnees who kept watch . Wyatt 's slumbers were uneasy . About midnight he awoke , and he was oppressed by the same presentiment that had made him turn back the boat . He heard nothing and saw nothing save his own men , but his instinct was at work once more , and it told him that his party was watched . He lay in dark woods in a vast wilderness , but he felt in every bone that near them was an alien presence . Wyatt raised himself upon his arm and looked at the two red sentinels .