"The order has been issued that no Texan shall be spared, and do you not see the red flag waving there close by us ?" Ned looked up.

The red flag now flaunted its folds very near to him.

He could not repress a shiver.
"I am here," he replied, "because some one who has power has told General Santa Anna that I am not to be put to death." "It is well for you, then," said Fernando, "that you have a friend of such weight.

It is a pity to die when one is so young and so straight and strong as you.

Ah, my young senor, the world is beautiful.