I myself have been riding all night, and shall be off in another hour.

But what have you to report?
What's in the wind now ?" "I hear but little, sir.

There is some talk about a detachment of the Georgia guard, something like a hundred men, to be sent out expressly for our benefit; but I look upon this as a mistake.

Their eye is rather upon the miners, and the Indian gold lands and those who dig it, and not upon those who merely take it after it is gathered.

I have heard, too, of something like a brush betwixt Fullam's troop and the miners at Tracy's diggings, but no particulars, except that the guard got the worst of it." "On that point I am already advised.