About eleven o'clock
Gus is n't so nearly exhausted as he seems to be . He is more distressed in mind than he is in body , for he is thinking of the prison at Fort Leavenworth . After we have gone a few miles we will rest them by taking them up behind us , but it would n't be a very bright trick to give one of them a horse to himself . '' About eleven o'clock a halt was ordered , and the deserters , who were riding behind the troopers , having dismounted , Corporal Owens took Carey off on one side and gave him some very emphatic instructions . Then he and George also dismounted , and , leaving their horses behind , made their way cautiously toward a ridge a short distance in advance of them . As they neared the top they threw themselves on their hands and knees and crept up until they could look over it . They were in plain view of the squatter 's cabin at which the troopers had stopped to eat their dinner the day before .