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 I understand Your Excellency's command, And forthwith haste to enter on my duty. [Exit Santa Anna, followed by Prado.]

Bradburn's tent. Bradburn appears equipped for the journey. Enters Elsie. José Prado, Santa Anna's servant, is seen protruding his head from beneath the tent-canvas.

Where goest thou, father? To the Alamo, Whose garrison, by my commander's will, I am to summon, that they render up Themselves, their arms, and all the fort contains. And weenest thou a moment, that they will Accede to thy dishonoring demand? I cannot tell thee; the result will show. Yet when the hopelessness of their defence, Their isolation and impending doom,