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Keep right on fannin' it and you'll come to a sign that reads 'American Hotel. That's her. Good water, fine scenery, quiet-like, and just the kind of a place them tourists is always lookin' for. I stopped there many a time. So has the rest of the boys." "You was tellin' me it was select-like " ventured Sundown. The men roared. Even Sundown's informant relaxed and grinned.
It would discourage them too much." "Of course," said Ned. "But meanwhile I wish to fight with you." "There will be plenty of chance," said Fannin. "Hark to it!" The sound of firing swelled on all sides of them, and above it rose the triumphant shouts of the Mexicans. Ned took another look at the beleaguered force, and what he saw did not encourage him.
Fannin waved his hand at the yellow and swollen river. "We must return to Goliad," he said, "I have decided. Besides, there is nothing else for us to do. About face, men, and take up the march." The men turned slowly and reluctantly, and the cannon began to plough the mud on the road to Goliad, from which they had come.
Colonel Fannin was in command of between four hundred and five hundred men, the majority of whom were volunteers from the United States, including the New Orleans Grays, the Georgias, the Alabama Red Rovers, and the Kentucky Mustangs. On receiving Houston's order he sent out one of his captains to bring in the settlers and their families at Refugio.
"Have you been anywhere near San Antonio?" he asked Smith. "Not nearer than thirty miles," replied Smith, "but over at Goliad I saw a force under Colonel Fannin that was gettin' ready to start to the relief of Travis. With it were some friends of mine. There was Palmer, him they call the Panther, the biggest and strongest man in Texas; Obed White, a New Englander, an' a boy, Will Allen.
He ordered Major Ward, with the Georgia battalions, to go and meet the fugitives. Many of the officers entreated him not to divide his men for a report which had come by way of the faithless colony of San Patricio. "But Fannin thought the risk ought to be taken. He took it, and the five hundred women and children proved to be a regiment of Mexican dragoons.
Austin is at the camp," said Fannin, "and he has been asking about you." Ned's heart thrilled. There was a strong bond between him and the gentle, kindly man who strove so hard to serve both Texas and Mexico, and whom Santa Anna had long kept a prisoner for his pains. "When will we reach the camp?" he asked Bowie. "In less than a half hour. See, the scouts have already sighted us."
My blood hath served thine f'r manny ginerations. At laste two. 'Twas thine old man that blacked my father's eye an' sint my uncle up f'r eighty days. How will ye'er honor have th' accursed swine's flesh cooked f'r breakfast in th' mornin' when I'm through fannin' ye? "But now, says Hogan, it's all changed.
Oh, me and Martha had a real heart to heart talk that night, and when I fin'lly goes up to my top floor suite I leaves her fannin' herself and gaspin' for breath. But she'd asked for facts, and I'd handed 'em over. How was I to guess what was goin' to be the follow up on that?
Where are Fannin and his men now? Prisoners in our hands. How many of the Texans are left? There is no place in all Texas so far that the arm of the great Santa Anna cannot reach it." Ned was stung by his taunts and replied: "You forget Houston." Urrea laughed. "Houston! Houston!" he said. "He does nothing. And your so-called government does nothing, but talk.
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