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"All that is left of him." "Where is the first battalion?" Spreading his hands out dramatically, he said, "Haven't you heard? Don't you know what has happened at Torata and Moquegua?" "I have heard nothing but some very dark rumours," I replied uneasily. "They cannot be darker than the truth. The army has been destroyed, and the battalion with it." "And the colonel?"
"Let me stay with them," I suggested, "and you can send a doctor back." "Meanwhile," interrupted the major, "I have some little skill in surgery, and, with your permission, I will remain also. You need not fear that I shall run away. I will give my parole to come to Moquegua. After that, matters must shape their own course." "Very well," exclaimed José; "the plan has its advantages.
We broke two cavalry charges, and stood our ground till there wasn't a cartridge left." "Then you retreated?" "Some of us did, not many! We left fifteen of our officers there and three-fourths of the battalion, all dead or dangerously wounded. Alvarado took us back to Moquegua; but the Spaniards caught us again.
"The saints preserve me!" he exclaimed, while his teeth chattered like castanets, "this is horrible. A dozen times, coming up that rope, I wished I'd never been born. But it's the last time I'll practise doctoring outside Moquegua." "You did very creditably, I assure you, doctor," observed Santiago, whose eyes gleamed with fun; "such grace, such agility, is given to few.
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