I know your voice.

Upon him, men! Seize him!" His action and the leap of the Mexicans were so sudden that Ned did not have time to aim his rifle.

But he struck one a short-arm blow with the butt of it that sent him down with a broken head, and he snatched at his pistol as three or four others threw themselves upon him.

Ned was uncommonly strong and agile, and he threw off two of the men, but the others pressed him to the ground, until, at Urrea's command, his arms were bound and he was allowed to rise.
Ned was in despair, not so much for himself but because there was no longer a chance that he could get through to Roylston.

It was a deep mortification, moreover, to be taken by Urrea.