They use 'em in the hills back of us at home.

The sound will carry a tremendous distance on a still night like this.
Do you think it was intended as a signal ?" "It's impossible to say, but I think so.

I think, too, that the bands-- there were two of them, one replying to the other--belong to the Slade and Skelly outfit.

Skelly has lived all his life in the mountains and Slade is learning 'em fast." "Then it behooves us to be watchful, and yet more watchful." "It does.

Maybe they're attempting an ambush, with which they might succeed against an ordinary troop, but not against such a troop as this, led by such a man as Colonel Winchester.