I've used 'em such a long time that I guess they feel they've got a right to trick me once in a while." But Ned was thinking just then of the great city which he wanted to see some day as Crockett had seen it.

But it seemed to him at that moment as far away as the moon.

Would his comrades and he ever escape from those walls?
His mind came back with a jerk.

He did hear something on the plain.
Crockett was right.

He heard the tread of horses and the sound of wheels moving.