Again I crept up to the spot from which I had seen the vedette; he was yet there, still facing south.

We passed a mounted vedette, and then went on for a few hundred yards until we came to a crossroad.

In advance of the rush flew the two Mexican vedettes, screaming, "Apaches! Apaches!" CHAPTER X.

" The point he thus designated was just in rear of our left- that is, the left of Company H's vedettesand overlooked both vedettes and pickets, so far as they could be seen for the irregularities of ground.

" Just at sunset I was sent forward to relieve a vedette.

Sergeant Halliday, with troopers Harvey and Smith, to keep to the right until they touch the vedettes of the German Hussars.'

I warned the vedette to be very careful in case he heard anything in his front, lest he fire on a friend.

The two villains began whispering together, debating, as far as I could hear, which was the best way of avoiding my vedettes.

Beyond the ravine were the Confederates, their skirmish line about three hundred yards beyond it, and their nightly vedette posts nobody knew where, for they used similar economy to ours in withdrawing their vedettes in the day.

Soon I saw before me a fallen tree, and wondered if it might not conceal some vedette.