In a minute our foremost men would be at the walls.
"Forward now! follow me!" I heard Charlie cry; and looking round noticed for the first time that the captain of his company was missing.
The men cheered by way of answer, and their run broke into a rush as they followed him under the guns.

Others were at the fort before us, and the storm had already begun.

Heedless of wounds, heedless of peril, the men swept towards the breach, and called on those behind to come on.
Charlie was one of the earliest of our battalion there, and already his feet were in the place, and he was waving to his men to come up when-- I felt a dull crushing sensation.

My nerves collapsed; my senses left me.

Speech, sight, hearing, all failed me in an instant; a strange darkness came over me, and then I was conscious of nothing.
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When my senses slowly and wearily recovered I was still lying in my master's pocket in the place where he had fallen at the storming of the breach.