"But it'll look wuss," said Shif'less Sol, "onless they've laid an ambush somewhar.
I don't like to see houses an' sech like go up in fire an' smoke, but after what wuz done at Wyomin' an' all through that valley, burnin' is a light thing." "We're bound to strike back with all our might," said Paul, who had the softest heart of them all.
"Now, I wonder who's in this here town," said Tom Ross.

"Mebbe Timmendiquas an' Brant an' all them renegades." "It may be so," said Henry.

"This is their base and store of supplies.
Oh, if Colonel Butler were only here with all his men, what a rush we could make!" So great was their eagerness that they crept closer to the village, passing among some thick clusters of grapevines.

Henry was in the lead, and he heard a sudden snarl.

A large cur of the kind that infest Indian villages leaped straight at him.
The very suddenness of the attack saved Henry and his comrades from the consequences of an alarm.