Then he remembered.
"The man whom the buffalo was about to gore and run over!" he exclaimed.
"Well, I am glad I was there to help you, and it seems that a lucky chance has made us a friend." He took the proffered hand and shook it heartily.

When Luiz had gone he explained to the others.
"He is surely a friend," he said, "and we have certainly had a piece of good fortune." But Long Jim instantly demurred.
"Henry," he said, "you're a smart fellow, but you're talkin' real foolish.
It wuz your good heart that done it.

Ef it hadn't told you to help him when that mad bull wuz about to run over him an' gore him an' trample him clean out uv sight in the earth, he wouldn't a-been here now, grinnin' at you an' with the gratitude oozin' out uv him all over." Just before the sunset the door was opened again and Braxton Wyatt thrust in his hateful face.

Behind him stood four Spanish soldiers.
"I hope you are enjoying yourselves," he said with irony.
"We'd rather be here, as we are, than be in your place, having done what you have done," exclaimed Paul passionately.
Wyatt paled a little, but instantly recovered himself.
"A bear can growl a lot when it's in a trap but growling doesn't help it out," he said airily.
"We kin do more than growl.

We've got sharp teeth, too, ez you ought to know," said Tom Ross, the man of few words.
"I'll admit that you have had some successes in the past," said Wyatt, smiling maliciously, "but your time is done.