"Mr. Roylston," he said, "the hosts of our foe have come an' they have
devoured our people as the locusts ate up Egypt in the Bible, but I
think our worst days have passed. We'll come back, an' we'll win."
"Yes," said Ned. "I know as truly as if a prophet had told me that we'll
square accounts with Santa Anna."
He spoke with such sudden emphasis that the others were startled. His
face seemed cut in stone. At that moment he saw only the Alamo and
Goliad.
The "Star of the South" sped northward, and Edward Fulton sat long on
her deck, dreaming of the day when the Texans, himself in the first
rank, should come once more face to face with Antonio Lopez de Santa
Anna.
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