The Texans said little, but they watched all the time.
It made a powerful appeal to Ned, who had been a great reader, and whose mind was surcharged with the old romances.

It seemed to him that his comrades and he were like knights, riding around a hostile city and issuing a formal challenge to all who dared to meet them.

He was proud to be there in such company.

The afternoon waned.

Banks of vapor, rose and gold, began to pile up in the southwest, their glow tinting the earth with the same colors.