Sam, from whom I get this account of affairs, had just time to notice this when he saw Captain Brentwood draw a pistol and fire it, and, at the same instant, a man dashed out of some scrub on the other side of the creek, and galloped away up the valley.
"They have had the precaution to set two watches for us, which I hardly expected," said Captain Desborough.

"They will fight us now, they can't help it, thank God.

They have had a short turn and a merry one, but they are dead men, and they know it.

The Devil is but a poor paymaster, Buckley.

After all this hide and seek work, they have only got two days' liberty." The troopers now went to the front with Halbert and the other military men, while Sam, Jim, and Charles, the last all unperceived by the Major in his excitement, rode in the rear.
"We are going to have a regular battle," said Jim.