More Mexicans were gathering, and there was great confusion.
Everybody was asking what was the matter.

The boy's quick wit did not desert him.

There was safety in ignorance and the multitude.
He quickly dropped to a walk and he, too, began to ask of others what had caused the trouble.

All the while he worked steadily toward the arroyo, and soon he left behind him the lights and the shouting.

He now came into the dark, passed beyond the Mexican lines, and entered the cut in the earth down which he had come.
He was compelled to sit down on the sand and relax.