20/29 But the good fortune which so often attends upon some rash enterprise was with them tonight. They completed their task, and drew away from the silent place as shadow-like as they had come. They looked well to the priming of their rifles, and to their other arms, and sat in silence to await the commencement of the battle. In the eastern sky the first rose red showed that dawn would shortly break. Looking towards the hill, the little band saw that movement had already begun there. |