But he may have carried important dispatches on his person.
As for the dispatches it wasn't wise for them to fool with such things.
He's got messages, dispatches of some kind that are worth a heap to somebody.
But his fear was greatest lest he might lose the precious dispatches that he bore.
With all the armies gatherin' in the south an' west of the state it stands to reason that them dispatches mean a lot.
I have just received my dispatches, and taken my farewell of Allenham; and by way of exhilaration I am now come to take my farewell of you."
Stealin' hosses is bad enough, but if that boy has got the big dispatches you say he has, an' he's missin', don't you think that sojers will come after him?
His lieutenant, Broughton, who had been in charge of the boats that explored the Columbia, here left him and accompanied Quadra to San Blas, whence he went overland to the Atlantic and sailed for England, bearing dispatches to the government.