"Massa hab ride wid de Vaquieros ob Ameriky an' hunt wid de Injuns on de Rockies.

No more fear ob deir ketchin' him dan ob ketchin' a streak o' lightnin'.

He come back bery soon wid all de news." Moses was a true prophet.

Within half-an-hour Van der Kemp returned as noiselessly as he had gone.

He did not keep them long in uncertainty.
"I have heard enough," he whispered, "to assure me that a plot, of which I had already heard a rumour, has nearly been laid.