I don't think men were ever so pleased as ours, when we heard it; for it showed that you, or some of your party, were still holding out.
"You must have had desperate fighting, for there are some forty bodies lying near the door; and we know that the enemy always carry off their dead, when they can.

You must have accounted for a good many more, who have been taken away in the darkness." "We have done our best, you may be sure," Lisle said.

"We have lost two men killed, and four out of the others are wounded.

I myself have got a rifle ball in my shoulder; at least, it is not there now, for it went right through.

Fortunately it missed the bone, so I shall be all right again, in a day or two." "How many were you attacked by ?" "I should say there must have been two hundred.