I'm hoping instead that he's been captured." Dick knew what the colonel meant.

In Colonel Winchester's opinion only two things, death or capture, could keep Warner from being with them.
"Maybe he will come in yet," he said.

"We were mixed up a good deal when the darkness fell, and he may have trouble in finding our position." "That's true.

There are not so many of us left, and we do not cover any great area of ground.

Lie still, Dick, and take a little rest.