We shall have to be pretty spry if we are going to get away from them; they will come along fast when they once take up the trail.

It has taken us six hours to get down here; it won't take them three.

Well, I hope we shall get on the move an hour or two before they do.

If they wait until daylight before advancing there will be a lot of hubbub and talk before they really make up their minds that we have really slipped through their fingers, and arrange for a start.

Still, by midday we shall be having them behind us if we can't find the way to throw them off." "I'd willingly take twenty ounces for my share of that gold, to be paid to me at Santa Fe," Boston Joe said.
"So would I, Joe; there ain't no denying it, we are in a tight place, and unless we find some way out of it in the morning, my own opinion is that we have only got one chance, and that is to leave all the horses behind us and to take our rifles and a loaf of bread each, and to start back on foot." "I should not wonder if we came to that," Zeke said; "but we will hold on for a few hours, and, anyhow, before we leave them we will hide them bags.