Today we send back ten wagons, our wounded, and four guns of the heavier artillery, all under proper escort.

You will notify Madame de Contrecoeur that there will be a wagon for her and her daughter." "Yes, General." He gathered his bridle, leaned from his saddle, and looked coldly at Boyd and me.
"Gentlemen," he said, "I shall expect you to take Amochol, dead or alive, before this command marches into the Chinisee Castle.

How you are to accomplish this business is your own affair.

I leave you full liberty, except," turning to Boyd, "you, sir, are not to encumber yourself again with any such force as you now have with you.

Twenty men are too many for a swift and secret affair.