The great thing now will be the powder." "That we have managed already, captain," Medart replied.

"As I told you, I spoke to Emile Moufflet the first morning I went ashore, and he said that it was at the magazines that his chum was employed.
Yesterday evening he came to us, and said that if I gave him the two thousand francs that you had given me for the purpose, he would hand us over two barrels of powder, at eleven o'clock last night.
We got them; and carried them, as you told us, to Brenon's; and helped him to bury them in his shed.

We also got, as you ordered, a couple of yards of fuse." "Bravo, Medart! everything seems going well for us." The news of Cathelineau's advance was confirmed, on the following day, by the return of the lads who had been sent to fetch assistance.

They brought with them eight or ten men from the estate; and reported that la Rochejaquelein had remained at Saumur, with a portion of his army, to defend that town against a large force that Biron was assembling at Tours; while Cathelineau, having with him Bonchamp and Stofflet, was marching with the main force along the north bank of the river.

They said, however, that his force was greatly diminished, for that large numbers of his men, objecting to fight outside their own country, had scattered to their villages.