“O, nonsense, uncle!”
“Well, if you ain’t, you ought to be.”
“I’m lucky to get out alive. Whom have we lost, uncle?”
“A good many fine fellows.” replied Hapgood, shaking his head, sadly.
“Poor Ben dropped early in the day.”
“Yes, I was afraid he’d got most to the end of his chapter afore we went in. Poor fellow! I’m sorry for him, and sorry for his folks.”
“Fred Pemberton said he should be killed, and Ben said he should not, you remember.”
“Yes, and that shows how little we know about these things.”
“Bob Dornton was killed, too.”
“No, he’s badly hurt, but the surgeon thinks he will git over it. The cap’n was slightly wounded.” And Hapgood mentioned the names of those in the company who had been killed or wounded, or were missing.