The reports could be heard easily in Vera Cruz, and they said that either a fresh revolution had begun, or that prisoners were escaping.

The people would be on the watch.

White turned the head of the boat more toward the south.
"Ned," he said, "we must choose the longer way.

We cannot run any risk of landing right under the rifles of Santa Anna's troops.

Good God!" Some gunner on the walls of San Juan de Ulua, of better sight and aim than the others, had sent a cannon ball so close that it struck the sea within ten feet of them.