To be observed by the renegade at that time might prove fatal to the hope of the immediate rescue of Fremont, as the outlaws would then be on their guard.
"We've either got to wait until night, or wind down through the wild places off to the south," Nestor said, after looking over the locality for a time.
"We just can't wait until night," Jimmie said.

"There's no knowing what treatment Fremont will receive at their hands before that time." "We may actually gain time by waiting," Nestor advised.

"We may be obliged to travel scores of miles around precipices and canons if we take to the rocks." "Suppose we wait, then," Frank said.

"We can go over into the bumps to the south and get out of the sunlight, then.

I'm about roasted.