A kind-hearted Mexican woman helped me to reach the river.

I found a horse tied there, and I took it.

I have been on the point of giving up life several times, but I met a man coming here with the news to Houston, and he helped me to hold out." The doctor was trembling with grief and anger, and he felt Antonia's hand on his shoulder.
"My friend," he whispered, "did you know JOHN WORTH ?" "Who did not know him in Fannin's camp?
Any of us would have been glad to save poor Jack; and he had a friend who refused to live without him." "Dare Grant ?" "That was the man, young lady.

Grant was a doctor, and the Mexicans wanted doctors.

They offered him his life for his services, but he would not have it unless his friend's life also was spared.