Keep
up a good heart."
"But it is such a long ride, and even if you do get away, you may find
us dead or captives when you return."
"You must be brave, Brenda--no, not brave, for you are that already;
but be patient. We are sure to be here before those fellows can take
the little fort. That can be defended as long as the ammunition holds
out."
Then the boy kissed the pretty Brenda and her cousins, and dropped
into the cellar. Passing into the earthwork, he selected his saddle
and bridle from a heap of others, buckled on his spurs, dropped with
bowed head upon his knees a moment, and crept into the passage leading
to the spring. Groping his way between the narrow walls, he presently
emerged through a natural crevice in a mass of bowlders near the
spring. Standing in the screen of willows, he parted the branches
cautiously in the direction of the two Indians, and saw them less than
a hundred yards distant, standing with their backs towards him
watching the Arnold house, the roof of which was now a roaring,
leaping mass of flame.
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