It was really an open grove with no underbrush, a splendid place for a camp.

It was evident that Cos's force had put it to full use, as the earth nearly everywhere had been trodden by hundreds of feet, and the charred pieces of wood were innumerable.

The Panther made a long and critical examination of everything.
"I'm thinkin'," he said, "that Cos stayed here three or four days.

All the signs p'int that way.

He was bound by the terms we gave him at San Antonio to go an' not fight ag'in, but he's shorely takin' his time about it.