But enough, senor; we have no time to spend in talking.

Even now there may be a couple of poignards preparing for us.
Get your things ready at once, as I start two hours before sunset.

In this sultry weather we are accustomed to travel in the cool of the evening." "I shall be ready." That same afternoon, two hours before the going down of the sun, a party of horsemen, wearing the uniform of Mexican dragoons of the line, issued from the _garita_ of Chihuahua, and took the northern road leading to Santa Fe, by El Paso del Norte.

Colonel Miranda, his ranchero dress changed for the fatigue uniform of a cavalry officer, was at its head, and by his side the stranger, whose cause he had so generously and gallantly espoused..