“They have a position up there in the hills which is unassailable.”
“I disagree with you,” said Frank, quietly. “I am not a military engineer, but I am a land surveyor and I tell you their position on that hill is not of the best.”
Clark was staggered.
“Why, it is the best position about here,” he declared.
“No,” said Frank, gravely. “Yonder is a much better position.”
He pointed to a hill to the right, and which the one upon which the cowboys were seemed to overlook.
“What—try to command the foe from that hill?” cried Clark, scornfully. “We would only expose ourselves, and they would sweep us from it like chaff before the wind.”
“No, they wouldn’t.”
“Now, Mr. Reade, what is the use for you to talk that way? The hill upon which they are is higher than this one.”
“It may be higher in the number of feet,” replied Frank, “but not in advantage of position.”