All things come to him who works while he waits.

Meanwhile, I think we'd better take a drink out of our water bottles, eat a quick breakfast and be off before we have visitors." Once more in the saddle, they rode on over a plain unchanged in character, still the same swells and dips, still the same lonesome yuccas and mesquite, with the occasional clumps of bunch grass.
"Don't you think we have shaken them off ?" asked Ned.
"No," replied Obed.

"They would scatter toward dawn and the one who picked up the trail would call the others with a whoop or a rifle shot." "Well, they've been called," said Ned, who was looking back.

"See, there, on the highest ridge." A faint, dark blur had appeared on a crest three or four miles behind them, one that would have been wholly invisible had not the air been so clear and translucent.

It was impossible at the distance to distinguish shapes or detach anything from the general mass, but they knew very well that it was the Lipans.