"Well nigh a hundred, colonel."

"That is more than enough. Now, MacIntosh, do you and the men here
go down the road and pitch the bodies over; we should never get
the horses over them."

Then he went to where the tenants were still waiting. "Now, my
lads," he said, "I want a big gap made in one of these walls we
built today, wide enough for a horse to pass through it, and strong
planks laid across the fosse." Then he ascended the ladder up to
the battlements. He found the baroness and her daughter standing
over the gateway.

"Is all over?" they asked, as he came up to them.

"Yes, for the present. We have beaten them handsomely, and without
the loss of a single man."

"Will they attack again in the morning, do you think?"

"I feel sure that they will not do so. You see, they relied upon
their cannon for taking the chateau, and they find they are useless.
I am going to make a sortie before daybreak, for I want to capture
those cannon. So long as they hold them they will continue their
work, and they may not always meet with so stout a resistance.
The loss of their cannon will dishearten them, as well as lessen
their power for evil. I shall take every man who can carry arms,
and leave ten at the breastwork to defend it; but there is no
chance whatever of their attempting to come up here while we are