How things did work for us! Them sleepy sentinels, an' then the stampede of the animals, carryin' Urrea an' the rest right away with it." "Fortune certainly worked for us," said Ned.
"And we can find no words in which to describe to you our gratitude," said the crippled man on the horse.

"We were informed very clearly by Urrea that we were rebels and, under the decree of Santa Anna, would be executed.

Even our young friend here, this boy, William Allen, would not have been spared." "We ain't all the way out of the woods yet," said the Panther, not wishing to have their hopes rise too high and then fall.

"Of course Urrea an' his men have some arms left.

They wouldn't stack 'em all under the shed, an' they can get more from other Mexicans in these parts.