"We must die."
"By Jupiter! That's fine advice."
"We may still try—"
"What?"
"Give me twenty faithful gauchos."
"Take them, and what then?"
"Leave me to act, major. I do not answer for success, as these red demons are as numerous as flies; but I shall certainly kill some of them."
"And the women and children?"
"I have shut them up in the Estancia of San Julian."
"Heaven be praised!"