They're chuck full of spear holes by this time." Coronado shouted to the drivers to start.

Commencing on the right, the wagons filed off two by two toward the mouth of the canon, while the Indians, gathered in a group half a mile away, looked on without a yell or a movement.

The instant that the vehicle which contained the ladies had cleared itself of the others, Thurstane and Coronado rode alongside of it.
"So! you are safe!" said the former.

"By Heavens, if they _had_ hurt you!" "And you ?" asked Clara, very quickly and eagerly, while scanning him from head to foot.
Coronado saw that look, anxious for Thurstane alone; and, master of dissimulation though he was, his face showed both pain and anger.
"Ah--oh--oh dear!" groaned Mrs.Stanley, as she made her appearance in the front of the vehicle.

"Well! this is rather more than I can bear.