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`` The Indians have had their eyes opened . '' `` How soon can those re-enforcements come , Will ? '' asked Joe . `` I do n't think they can get here before to-morrow noon , if as soon . They 'll have a long journey before them , and a body of several hundred soldiers ca n't travel as fast as a single person . '' `` Of course they 'll be cavalry , '' put in Darry . `` I hope so -- if the cavalry was at Fort Prescott when Leeson got there . ''