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We can not hold the place against a determined assault . '' `` That is undoubtedly true , '' said Ward , `` and flushed by the success that they have had elsewhere it seems likely to me that the Mexicans will make such an attack very soon . '' `` In any event , '' said Ned , `` we are isolated here , cut off from Fannin , and exposed to imminent destruction . '' `` We start at midnight , '' said Ward . Ned climbed upon the walls , and examined all the surrounding country . He saw lights in the wood , and now and then he discerned the figures of Mexican horsemen , riding in a circle about the church , members of the patrol that had been left by General Urrea . He did not think it a difficult thing to cut through this patrol , but the Texans , in their flight , must become disorganized to a certain extent .