These were his people, and he was thankful that he should have so large a part in the attempt to save them.

But he only had fleeting glimpses because they rode very fast now.

He was going to Sam Houston, famous throughout all the Southwest, and Houston was at one of the little new settlements some distance away.

He would tell his story again, but he knew that the Texans were already gathering.

The messengers detached from the group had now carried the alarm to many a cabin.
Several times at night they saw points of fire on the horizon and they would pause to look at them.
"That's the Texans signaling to one another," said "Deaf" Smith.
"They're passing the word westward.