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A moment later Nick let down the bearskin curtain, shutting off completely the Mexican's view of the dance-hall. "Come, now, tell us what your name is?" The voice was Ashby's who, together with the others, now surrounded the prisoner. "Speak up who are you?" "My name ees Jose Castro;" and then he added with a show of pride: "Ex-padrona of the bull-fights." "But the bull-fights are at Monterey!
Ashby's own horse was killed under him, falling headlong in the mud, but in an instant somebody supplied him with a fresh one, upon which he leaped, and then they thundered over the burning bridge, Ashby and Sherburne the last two to begin the crossing. Harry, who was just ahead of Ashby and Sherburne, felt as if the flames were licking at them.
"I feel justified in saying," he wrote in his short report, "that, though the battle-field is in the possession of the enemy, yet the most essential fruits of the victory are ours." As he stood before the camp-fire near Newtown, wrapped in his long cloak, his hands behind his back, and stirring the embers with his foot, one of Ashby's youngest troopers ventured to interrupt his reverie.
"Oh, I don't know," said Harry, who saw that it would not help himself to have Ashby's ransom raised. "All I do know is this, which I assure 'Your Majesty' is truth, that to me a ransom of ten thousand pounds is an impossible sum, and means simply death." "His Majesty" smiled, assenting at the same time to the statement that non-payment was equivalent to death.
From the rear, far down the road, could be heard the voices of Bee, Bartow, and Elzey. Ardour, elasticity, strength returned to the Army of the Shenandoah. With a triumphant cry the First Brigade wheeled into the road that led eastward through the Blue Ridge by Ashby's Gap. Two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock came and passed.
It was in March, 1748, that George Fairfax and Washington set forth on their adventures, and passing through Ashby's Gap in the Blue Ridge, entered the valley of Virginia.
The roads running toward the Blue Ridge are nearly all macadamized, and the principal ones lead to the railroad system of eastern Virginia through Snicker's, Ashby's Manassas, Chester, Thornton's Swift Run, Brown's and Rock-fish gaps, tending to an ultimate centre at Richmond.
"I left Romney, sir, yesterday morning, and I came by bridle paths through the mountains. I was sent because I have hunted over every mile of that country, and I could keep out of Ashby's way. I struck the river above Bath, and I worked down through the woods to the ferry. I have a letter for General Banks." Drawing out a wallet, he opened it and handed to the other the missive in question.
Banks, for the second time, was more fortunate than he deserved. To the misconduct of Ashby's troopers, and to the pedantic folly of General Steuart, the escape of the Federal army must be attributed. "Never have I seen an opportunity when it was in the power of cavalry to reap a richer harvest of the fruits of victory.
The bulk of the army was across, and if necessary they must sacrifice Ashby's cavalry, but that sacrifice would be too great. Harry had never seen Ashby and his gallant captains show more courage. They fought off the enemy to the very last and then galloped for the bridge, under a shower of shell and grape and bullets.
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