"There's plenty of time between this and mid-day.

Hamilton and Hedley of the Camel Corps are good boys, and they'll be after us like a streak.

They'll have no baggage-camels to hold them back, you can lay your life on that! Little did I think, when I dined with them at mess that last night, and they were telling me all their precautions against a raid, that I should depend upon them for our lives." "Well, we'll play the game out, but I'm not very hopeful," said Cochrane.

"Of course, we must keep the best face we can before the women.

I see that Tippy Tilly is as good as his word, for those five niggers and the two brown Johnnies must be the men he speaks of.
They all ride together and keep well up, but I can't see how they are going to help us." "I've got my pistol back," whispered Belmont, and his square chin and strong mouth set like granite.