"It is not at all probable. Mac has not received any information at all."
"But you know Price has sent spies into our camp, and if any of them should be present and recognise you?"
"I must take the chances. If I do not return to you by eleven o'clock, you will know that I have been arrested."
"If ye are arrested we will go in and lick the nasty chaw-tobacker skunks, and get you out," said Nettleton, who had approached just in time to hear the last sentence.
"William, I told you to remain with the horses, did I not?"
"I know you did, captain, but you see I had to come and report myself under arrest."
"What have you been doing, William?"
"I've killed the nigger!"
"Not Swasey's nigger?"