I cannot tell the facts as I desire to.

In fact, my hand trembles so, and my feelings are so overcome, that it is hard for me to write at all.

But we went to the place that we were ordered to go to, and when we arrived there we found the guard sure enough.

If I remember correctly, there were just eleven of them.

Some were sitting down and some were lying down; but each and every one was as cold and as hard frozen as the icicles that hung from their hands and faces and clothing-- dead! They had died at their post of duty.