He smiled to himself at the thought of Urrea.

He was sure that the young Mexican had sustained no fatal injury, but he must have painful wounds.

And Ned, with the Alamo as vivid as ever in his mind, was glad that he had inflicted them.
Midnight came, and Ward told Ned that he need not watch any longer when the second relay of sentinels appeared.

But the boy desired to remain and Ward had no objection.
"But you'll be sleepy," he said, in a good-humored tone, "when we start at the break of day, and you won't have much chance to rest on a long march." "I'll have to take the risk," said Ned.

"I feel that I ought to be watching." Toward morning the men in the mission were awakened and began to prepare for the march.