It was with shudders that he entered the Alamo, and the shudders came
again when he looked about the bloodstained courts and rooms, lately the
scene of such terrible strife, but now so silent. In a recess of the
church which had been used as a little storage place by himself and
Crockett he found an excellent rifle of the long-barreled Western
pattern, a large horn of powder and a pouch full of bullets. There was
also a supply of dried beef, which he took, too.
Now he felt himself a man again. He would find the Texans and then they
would seek vengeance for the Alamo. He crossed the Main Plaza, dropped
over the low wall and quickly disappeared in the dusk.
CHAPTER XIV
THE NEWS OF THE FALL
Five days before the fall of the Alamo a little group of men began to
gather at the village of Washington, on the Brazos river in Texas. The
name of the little town indicated well whence its people had come. All
the houses were new, mostly of unpainted wood, and they contained some
of the furniture of necessity, none of luxury. The first and most
important article was the rifle which the Texans never needed more than
they did now.
But this new and little Washington was seething with excitement and
suspense, and its population was now more than triple the normal.
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