CROCKETT AND BOWIE Unluckily for the Texans, the night was the darkest of the month.

No bonfires burned in San Antonio, and there were no sounds of music.

It seemed to Ned that the silence and darkness were sure indications of action on the part of the foe.
He felt more lonely and depressed than at any other time hitherto in the siege, and he was glad when Crockett and a young Tennesseean whom he called the Bee-Hunter joined him.

Crockett had not lost any of his whimsical good humor, and when Ned suggested that Santa Anna was likely to profit by the dark he replied: "If he is the general I take him to be he will, or at least try, but meanwhile we'll just wait, an' look, an' listen.

That's the way to find out if things are goin' to happen.