He was Henry Karnes, the Tennesseean, great scout and famous borderer of the Texas plains.
Ned looked with admiration at these men, whose names were great to him.
On the wild border where life depended almost continually upon skill and quickness with weapons, "Deaf" Smith, Jim Bowie and Henry Karnes were already heroes to youth.

Ned thrilled.

He was here with his own people, and with the greatest of them.

He had finished his long journey and he was with the Texans.

The words shaped themselves again and again in his brain, the Texans! the Texans! the Texans! "You two seem to have given the Lipans a lot of trouble," said Bowie, looking at the two fallen warriors.
"We were putting all the obstacles we could in the way of what they wanted," said Obed modestly, "but we don't know what would have happened if you hadn't come.