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Rh traversed without alarm. Then a cry went up from the darkness at their left and an  arrow sped past them. A dragoon at David’s side stopped and fired, and simultaneously there was a groan from one farther in advance and he sank into the arms of a comrade. The Indians were firing at them now from the direction of the granary with muskets, while a number of arrows came from  other points. Carrying the wounded man, they dashed across the intervening ground  toward the garrison. From the loopholes of that building flashes told that they had been  seen and that those within were seeking to  protect them with their fire. From the moment of the alarm until they had reached the portal of the garrison was but a scant space  of time, and so sudden had been their appearance that the enemy, surprised, confused,  and, doubtless, uncertain as to their strength  of numbers, presented small opposition. It was not until they were crowding through  the door that the Indians began to fire upon  them in earnest. Then, since they were well shadowed, the bullets and arrows did them no  hurt save that one man received a trifling  wound in his hand.

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