I know that we can break through the Mexican lines to-night and reach the Coleto, the water and the timber.

Shall we do it ?" Many replied yes, but then a voice spoke out of the darkness: "What of the wounded, Colonel?
We have sixty men who can't move." There was an instant's silence, and then a hundred voices said in the darkness: "We'll never leave them.

We'll stay here and fight again!" Ned was standing with those nearest Fannin, and although the darkness was great his eyes had become so used to it that he could see the pale face of the leader.

Fannin's eyes lighted up at the words of his men, and a little color came into his cheeks.
"You speak like brave men rather than wise men," he said, "but I cannot blame you.

It is a hard thing to leave wounded comrades to a foe such as the one who faces us.