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Squabbles among the Texan leaders had reduced their army to five or six hundred men. "Don't you think," said Ned, "that we ought to find out just exactly what is here, and what this army intends?" "Not a doubt of it," said Obed. "Those who have eyes to see should not go away without seeing." The Panther nodded violently in assent. "We must scout about the camp," he said.
"What I wanted to ask you," concluded Max, "was whether you'd ever happened to run across this same Roland Chase in the mountains. We heard about a fellow answering his description who was seen in company with a dissipated guide named Shanks. I thought perhaps you might help us out, Obed." Obed looked him straight in the face.
When the second charge was driven back and the horses were quieted the Panther and Obed threshed up the woods, lest some Mexican musketeer should lie hidden there. Nobody slept any more that night. Ned, Will and the Panther kept a sharp watch upon the bed of the creek, the moon and stars fortunately aiding them.
With a second furious cry he stooped, caught up the helpless toen, and held him high in air. The canoe lurched heavily, and the next instant I was in the water. I never saw Obed again: and the toen must have gone down like a stone. For me, I struck out for the far shore, but the current swept me down on the sandy spit where we had nearly come to shipwreck, the day before.
It was the peculiar kind of light that he had seen before, when a ray from the sun struck squarely on the steel head of a lance. "Look!" he said to Obed and Bowie. They looked, and Bowie instantly halted his men. The face of the Ring Tailed Panther suddenly lighted up. Texans don't carry lances an' I think we shall be attacked by a Mexican force within a few minutes, Colonel Bowie."
Anybody'd think Hardee was some kind of a wonder, the way you women folks go on 'bout him. How do you know but what he might be a reg'lar fraud? Looks ain't everything." "Well, I never! Obed Gott, I should think you'd be 'shamed of yourself, talkin' that way. I shan't speak another word to you to-night. I never see you act so unlikely. An old fraud! The idea! That grand, noble man!"
"And things are not always as bad as they look," said Obed White, after he had heard of the messenger who had come to Houston and Unmet. "It's never too late to hope." The five rode fast the remainder of the day. They passed through a silent and desolate land. They saw a few cabins, but every one was abandoned. The deep sense of tragedy was over them all, even over young Will Allen.
I think we're going to enter a terrible long stretch of dry country, and we want our muscles to be tough and our wind to be good." Obed was partially right in his prediction as they passed for three days through an absolutely sterile region. It was not sandy, however, but the soil was hard and baked like a stone.
He believed that Obed and he could defeat the entire force of brigands, but he awaited the signal of his older comrade. Standing close together behind the massive pillar they could not now see the sentinels at the doorway. Ned was quite sure that they were sleeping and that he and his comrade could steal past them. But Obed turned in another direction and Ned followed without a word.
A little after midnight they saw a light ahead, and they judged by the motions that a man was waving a torch. "It can't be a trap," said Obed, "because the Mexicans would not stop running until they were long past here." "An' there ain't no cover where that torch is," added the Ring Tailed Panther. "Then suppose we ride forward and see what it means," said Ned.
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