Without it, one cannot learn to hate Santa Anna sufficiently"; and her small, white teeth snapped savagely, as she touched the hand of Lopez with an imperative "Proceed." "Colonel Bowie was helpless in bed.

Two Mexican officers fired at him, and one ran forward to stab him ere he died.

The dying man caught his murderer by the hair of his head, and plunged his knife into his heart.
They went to judgment at the same moment." "I am glad of it! Glad of it! The American would say to the Almighty: 'Thou gavest me life, and thou gavest me freedom; freedom, that is the nobler gift of the two.

This man robbed me of both.' And God is just.
The Judge of the whole earth will do right." "At noon, only six of the one hundred and eighty-three were left alive.
They were surrounded by Castrillon and his soldiers.

Xavier says his general was penetrated with admiration for these heroes.