He told me so afterwards.

His exact words are only known to himself and the other Colonel.

But the enemy's Colonel said, 'I would rather die than surrender,' or words to that effect.
Our Colonel returned to his men and gave the order to fix bayonets, and even Oswald felt his manly cheek turn pale at the thought of the amount of blood to be shed.

What would have happened can never now be revealed.
For at this moment a man on a piebald horse came clattering over a hedge--as carelessly as if the air was not full of lead and steel at all.

Another man rode behind him with a lance and a red pennon on it.