If we don't meet Mejia and his people we may hear something of them." "I am for the llanos." "Very well.

We will go thither.

But we shall have to be very circumspect.
There are loyalist as well as patriot guerillas roaming about.

They say that Morales has collected a force of three or four thousand, mostly Indios, and they are all so much alike that unless you get pretty close it is impossible to distinguish patriots from loyalists." "Well, there is room to run if we cannot fight." "Oh, plenty of room," laughed Carmen.

"But as for fighting--loyalist guerillas are not quite the bravest of the brave, yet I don't think we three are quite a match for fifty of them, and we are not likely to meet fewer, if we meet any.