And those Caesars will be more merciful assassins than the moccasin snakes would have been ....

He's taking plenty of time, to cover that last hundred yards.

Perhaps he met the conch boy, running back, and had sense enough to take alarm." "Not he," denied Standish.

"That fool boy was so scared, he'd plunge into the brush or the water, the second he heard Rodney's step.

Those conchs can keep as mum as Seminoles.
He'd never let Rodney see him or hear him.