His enemies, he thought, would not be likely to follow him up the cliffs; but if they did, and he found that he could not distance them, there were plenty of excellent hiding-places among the bushes and rocks, where he could remain in perfect security, with an army searching for him.

Johnny and Frank did not look at the matter in that way.

They thought not of concealment; they took the nearest and easiest way home, and trusted entirely to their heels.
"Help! help!" shouted the sentinel, discharging the barrels of his revolver in quick succession.

"The boys have gone!" For a moment, great confusion reigned in the camp.

The Rancheros sprang to their feet, and hurried hither and thither, each one asking questions, and giving orders, to which nobody paid the least attention, and the babel of English and Spanish that arose awoke the echoes far and near.