We watched you launch, and the shit hit the fan. Luckily, our Headquarters contacted your Battalion Headquarters, and got them to launch a rescue miss...on right away, but that took time too, ' he informed me."Yes, we went in with 120 men. I came out with 12 men and myself — all wounded — and one company commander, without a scratch," I said. "The rescue mission people really saved our bacon. We were about out of every thing including people. But we had the objective, and a lot of dead bad guys,. "The boys, who were 12 and 14 years old, used the bandits' horses and ropes to pull the bodies to an arroyo and dumped them in. Once that was done, I asked them to fasten their ropes to the frame of my automobile and pull me out of the sand. They had to pull me nearly 400 yards to be sure that I was clear of the loose sand.When that was done, I gave them the four horses and the tack to pay them for their efforts. Strictly, from a monetary point of view, the boys were grossly overpaid, but I. Lady Betty was a tall, robust, buxom woman of under forty, after the type of Ruben's fleshy females, but somewhat over-developed, and owed a good deal to her corseter. I guessed that without her stays she would be almost exuberant, but nevertheless a fine armful. Molly, her daughter, was a small and dainty edition of her mother, and with the added freshness and juiciness of her eighteen years, she was really a tidbit. But both mother and daughter were silly, affected, insincere, and. The heavy recoil did bother her at first, but they were able to pad the stock butt so that it did not hurt so much. This enabled her to become very accurate with the crossbow up to 150 feet. Beyond that, the rapid drop of the bolt made it very difficult for anybody to be very accurate with it.Martha was convinced with the same arguments used on Mary, and she agreed to learn to use the weapon. Esther finally was ordered by Martha to learn, since there were no other levers to use against the old.