The menace in its most vivid hue was always there.
Travis, who was further along the wall with a pair of strong field glasses, came back and joined Ned and Crockett.
"If you would like to see Santa Anna you can," he said to Ned.

"He is on the church of San Fernando now with his generals looking at us.

Take these glasses and your gaze may meet his." Ned took the glasses, and there was Santa Anna standing directly under the folds of the banner with his own glasses to his eyes, studying the Alamo and its defenders.

About him stood a half dozen generals.

Ned's heart swelled with anger.