I think that there is little danger in my nearing the city.
"Come, let us turn our horses' heads, at once." In a few minutes, they were returning by the route they had hitherto traveled They were already dressed as young Spaniards.

The disguises had been brought by their rescuer, and assumed at the first halt.

He himself had also washed the paint from his face and hands, and had assumed European garb, in order that any inquiry about three mounted Indians might be baffled.
"There is now," he said, "no longer any occasion for us to ride by night.

We are journeying north, and any inquiries which may ever be set on foot will certainly point only to men going south; and whereas our Indian disguises might have been suspected, I am now in my proper character, and my passing through can excite no rumor or comment." Don Estevan had, indeed, assumed the garb of a Spanish proprietor of rank, while the boys were dressed as vaqueros; and as they passed through villages, in the daytime, kept their horses half a length behind that of their leader.

They avoided, on their ride back, putting up at any of the posadas, or village inns, on their road; sleeping, as before, in the woods.