When you disclosed your arms, today, he slipped at once from the building, as he knew that he would be suspected.

Changing his clothes in a house near, he mounted his horse and rode to meet us, conveying the news that the crisis had arrived.

How it ended he could not tell; but he hoped that some delay might occur, in resuming proceedings against you." By this time they had reached their horses, which were tied in a clump of trees, at a short distance from the road.
"They are fine animals," Don Estevan said, "and we may reckon upon showing our heels to any of those who pursue us; for I can assure you that the chase is likely to be a hot one." "Whither do you intend to go ?" "I am thinking of making for Arica.

Before we reach that town you can, if you choose, strike to the hills and join the natives beyond, as you proposed when at Arica; or, should you prefer it, you can, in disguises, enter Arica and remain there, for a time, until all possibility of your friends appearing before that place be at an end.
"My absence will not have been noticed, for I mentioned to friends there that I was going into the interior, to investigate a mine, of whose existence I had heard from some Indians.

When I return, therefore, I shall say that the mine was not sufficiently promising, in appearance, for me to care about asking for a concession from the government.