Oh, I know them all!" "Perhaps you have had cause to know them well," said the Spaniard in a sardonic tone--he was a keen reader of character, and he understood Braxton Wyatt.
But Braxton Wyatt ignored the taunt in his anxiety.
"They must not be taken too lightly," he said.

"They are somewhere in these woods, and, Captain, I warn you once more against them." The Spaniard smiled in his superior way, and, turning to his men, began to give directions for the camp that night.

Sunset was not far away, and they would remain in the glade.

His was too strong a force to fear attack in that isolated region, but Alvarez posted sentinels, and ordered the others to sleep, when the time came, in a wide ring about the fire.

Within the ring he and Paul and Wyatt sat, and the Spaniard, maintaining his light, ironic humor, talked much.