His return advices will find us, I trust, in San Antonio.

But until we have taken the city, no American can safely enter it.

For this reason, when it was necessary to give Lopez Navarro certain instructions, I volunteered to bring them.
By the Virgin of Guadalupe! I have had my reward," he said, lifting the Senora's hand and kissing it.
"But, then, even you are in danger." "Si! If I am discovered; but, blessed be the hand of God! Luis Alveda knows where he is going, and how to get there." "I have heard," said the Senora in a hushed voice, "that there are to be no prisoners.

That is Santa Anna's order." "I heard it twenty days ago, and am still suffocating over it." "Ah, Luis, you do not know the man yet! I heard Fray Ignatius say that." "We know him well; and also what he is capable of"; and Luis plucked his mustache fiercely, as he bowed a silent farewell to the ladies.
"Holy Maria! How brave he is!" said Isabel, with a flash of pride that conquered her desire to weep.

"How brave he is! Certainly, if he meets Santa Anna, he will kill him." They went very quietly up-stairs.