All, then, is ready.
Senora, show now that you are of a noble house, and in this hour of adversity be brave, as the Flores have always been." She was pleased by the entreaty, and took his arm with a composure which, though assumed, was a sort of strength.

She entered the wagon with her daughters, and uttered no word of complaint.

Then Navarro locked the gate, and took his seat beside Ortiz.

The prairie turf deadened the beat of their horses' hoofs; they went at a flying pace, and when the first pallid light of morning touched the east, they had left San Antonio far behind and were nearing the beautiful banks of the Cibolo..