Humanity forbade another trial, and yet it was made.

"Are there four more men in the regiment who will volunteer to go for Capt.

Payne's body ?" shouted the officer.

Four men sprang forward, as if fearful that they would miss the opportunity of these last: one was Jerome Fletcher, the hero of our story.

They started upon the run; and, strange to tell, all of them reached the body, and had nearly borne it from the field, when two of the number were cut down.