CHAPTER XXIII.

CANNON IS BROUGHT TO BEAR. Long and patiently had the environed garrison been awaiting the token of well faring with the adventurers who had so daringly left that shelter. Only in the end of the night had the sudden, and, for the moment, inexplicable apparition of the cattle on which had been imposed that fiery burden, seemed to reveal the operations of their friends. The charge of the furious and panic-stricken creatures, whose hides were singed and smoked with a nauseating odour, was unresisted by the rebels, hud…