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`` What can we do in the meantime ? '' `` Sit tight and watch for developments . '' But all that day there was never so much as a sound or a sign of the crew they had seen arrive . At one time , just before noon , Grenville fancied some movement occurred in the rocks that crowned the second hill . But he detected no further indication that someone might have scaled the cliff to spy on himself and Elaine . He had never in his island rambles discovered a place by which that hill could be surmounted . That easy access might be obtained on the seaward side he readily understood .