Another Tory and a chief, also, were killed, and Braxton Wyatt was daunted.

Nor did he feel any better when old Hiokatoo crept to his side.
"We have failed here," he said.

"They shoot too well for us to rush them.

We have lost good men." Hiokatoo frowned, and the scars on his face stood out in livid red lines.
"It is so," he said.

"These who fight us now are of their best, and while we fight, the army that destroyed Oghwaga is coming up.