Alba beckoned the captains to him, and assigned to each his duty.

He usually mingled German and Spanish troops together, in order to stimulate the courage of the combatants still higher by emulation.

So it happened even now that Heimbert and Fadrique were commanded to storm the very same height, which, now gleaming with the morning light, they at once recognized as that which had shone out so fiercely and full of promise the night before..