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At this time nothing but the best seemed to satisfy the Fates. One day it would be a trusted colour-sergeant, on another a couple of particularly promising young corporals. Only last week the Adjutant athlete, scholar, born soldier, and very lovable schoolboy, all most perfectly blended had fallen mortally wounded, on his morning round of the fire-trenches, by a bullet which came from nowhere.
Our command under Miles, was, about 5 p. m., drawn back and established just in rear of where we made our first fight. Our Division General, Richardson, was this day mortally wounded. He had the entire confidence of his men, as a brave and skillful soldier, and his taking off was deeply lamented.
Twenty-three guns lay dismounted; her starboard quarter gallery had been carried away, and her best bower anchor with the starboard cathead was towing under her stem. Her brave Captain was mortally wounded, and she had three officers, eleven marines, and thirty seamen killed, and three officers, nineteen marines and ninety-one seamen wounded.
Then Shep struck him a blow over the head with the gun stock and Giant finished him with a shot at close range. In the meantime the other deer that had been mortally wounded was put out of its misery; and then the short but sharp contest came to an end. "What a haul!" ejaculated Snap, as he reloaded his weapon. "This is something to make town folks stare!"
During the latter time of the bombardment, he, the Medecin des Pauvres, was on the eastern ramparts, and his attention was suddenly called to a man mortally wounded by the splinter of a shell. While examining the nature of the wound; De Mauleon, who was also on the ramparts, came to the spot. The dying man said, 'M. le Vicomte, you owe me a service. My name is Marc le Roux.
An attack was made by this force on Major Lally at the pass of Ovejas, the engagement lasting an hour and a half. Captains James Nelson Caldwell, of the Voltigeurs, and Arthur C. Cummings, Eleventh Infantry, were severely wounded. Nine enlisted men were wounded, one mortally. The Mexican loss is not known.
"I must have suffered a good deal, do you not think so?" said she, after a moment's silence. "If I had not made up my mind to come here to-day, almost in despair, what would have happened?" "I cannot tell; I should perhaps have died, for I am wounded mortally here" she pressed her hand to her heart. "But what might have been death to me, will now be life."
The husband of one was brought back mortally wounded, and a little later the other was told that her husband had been shot dead. The battle ceased, and the last of the wounded was brought to the surgeons, but still Lady Harriet was without news of Major Acland, and it was not until many hours later that she heard he was still alive.
The physician could not bear to see his people weep, to see flock round him the poor of the canton, to whom Athos had so often given life and consolation by his kind words and his charities. He examined, therefore, from the depths of his hiding-place, the nature of that mysterious malady which bent and aged more mortally every day a man but lately so full of life and a desire to live.
"If I have a foible, it is under-statement," returned Hadria, with a half-smile. "Then I think you haven't a foible," said Algitha. "That I am ready to admit; but seriously, women seem bent on proving that you may treat them as you like, but they will 'never desert Mr. Micawber." Algitha smiled. "They are so mortally afraid of getting off the line and doing what might not be quite right.
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