The boy was tall and strong and his cheeks were yet ruddy.

His features bore some resemblance to those of his older comrade.
"Ned," said the man at last, "it has been good of you to stay with me here, but a prison is no place for a boy.

You must secure a release and go back to our people." The boy smiled, and his face, in repose rather stern for one so young, was illumined in a wonderful manner.
"I don't want to leave you, Uncle Steve," he said, "and if I did it's not likely that I could.

This house is strong, and it's a long way from here to Texas." "Perhaps I can induce them to let you go," said the man.

"Why should they wish to hold one so young ?" Edward Fulton did not reply because he saw that Stephen Austin was speaking to himself rather than his companion.