I'll cover you as well as I can.

Just see if they are coming on." "Don't see why you should send me," grumbled the man.

"My wage ain't so very, high, and I've only got one life.

Send Leather: he is not so much consequence as me." The doctor uttered an angry ejaculation, and frowned fiercely; but it was no time for angry words.
"Leather, take your gun, and try if you can make out where the blacks are.

Don't fire unless they see and attack you." The man came with a heavy scowl upon his brow, shouldered his gun, and walked back in among the trees, while the doctor stood patting the butt of his gun impatiently, as his eyes searched the place in the direction of the water-hole.
"Our black must have known these fellows were in the neighbourhood," he said; "and he has either joined them or they have scared him away.
Joined them, I think, or he would have warned me.