A single hasty glance at most of these was sufficient; but a few were so huddled and hidden that I was compelled to move them before I thoroughly convinced myself that Mademoiselle was not there.

I finally found her horse, several rods away, lying against the sand-ridge; but she whose body I sought with such fond persistency was not among those mangled forms.
Faint and sick from the awful scene, with head throbbing painfully, I sank down upon a slope of sand where I was able to command a clear view in either direction, and thought rapidly.

I was alone with the dead.

Of all those lying silent before me, none would stir again.

Not a savage roamed the stricken field,--though doubtless they would again swarm down upon it as soon as the sacking of the Fort had been completed.