When they go into battle they will see Houston in front of them, and hear him call back 'No surrender!' Mexico cannot hold Texas against such a determined purpose, carried out by such determined men." Lopez did not answer.

He was a melancholy, well-read man, who had travelled, and to whom the idea of liberty was a passion.

But the feeling of race was also strong in him, and he could not help regretting that liberty must come to Texas through an alien people--"heretics, too"-- he muttered, carrying the thought out aloud.

It brought others equally living to him, and he asked, "Where, then, is Doctor Worth ?" "At Espada.

The army wished him to go to San Felipe with Houston, but he declined.