But they discovered no signs of man, white or red, and they would have been content to wait there had they not been so anxious to investigate the reported advance of Santa Anna on the Rio Grande.
Roylston was the most patient of them all, or at least he said the least.
"I think," he said about the fourth or fifth day, "that it does not hurt to linger here.

The Mexican power has not yet gathered in full.

As for me, personally, it suits me admirably.

I can walk a full two hundred yards now, and next week I shall be able to walk a mile." "When we are all ready to depart, which way do you intend to go Mr.
Roylston ?" asked Ned.
"I wish to go around the settlements and then to New Orleans," replied Roylston.

"That city is my headquarters, but I also have establishments elsewhere, even as far north as New York.