The destruction of the French magazines delayed their operations till midsummer, when Broglie advanced from Cassel, and the Prince Soubise from the Rhine, to give Ferdinand battle. On the march they fell in with Sporken, and this time defeated one of his posts, and took nineteen pieces of cannon and eight hundred prisoners. The Allies awaited them in front of the river Lippe, and between that river and the Aest, near the village of Kirch-Denkern. The French were routed at all points, having lost, according to the Allies, five thousand men, whilst they themselves had only lost one thousand five hundred. The effect of the victory, however, was small.[See larger version][Pg 22]
ONE:"I shall be in and out all night, more or less," he told Felipa. She reached her hands from the bedclothes and stroked the deep lines on his forehead, the lines she had had most to do with putting there. But she did not ask for confidences. She never did. It was not her way. He kissed her and went out into the night again, to sit upon his porch at a spot where, through the cottonwood branches, he commanded a view of Brewster's front door and of the windows of the commissary office.
TWO:The wrench, within his reach, could be used as a weapon. Larry had caught Jeffs flash of the eyes toward it as his hands had been elevated. From Jeffs expression Larry saw, out of the corner of his eye, that the older pilot caught the younger comrades purpose.
Above them the night sky shone serene, with the full moon, just nicked by the curve of old Mother earth, riding higher and higher.Deep in the problem he looked up at a sound.I dont see anything, objected Dick, dejected that he had not been as quick of wit as had his younger chum. But, then, you saw it first by daylight.