about midnight
the vengeance of our soldiers , I was told , was terrible ! As soon as they saw me fall , they threw themselves furiously upon the enemy . Theobald , they said , was overwhelmed by numbers and killed in a thick wood , whither he had fled . His troops were repulsed and routed , and many lives lost ; and about midnight a soldier came from one of the chieftains , to tell us that they were about to seize on the fort of Rothenwald . `` Then my heart was moved . I thought of the wife and children of the unfortunate Theobald , and I entreated one of my brethren , a captain , in great favor with his chieftain , to bear to the latter a letter which I wrote , notwithstanding my great weakness , in which I earnestly requested , as a personal favor , that he would allow the wife and family of Theobald to be conducted safely from the chateau . I told him that their lives were precious to me ; and that , since I could not myself be their protector , I committed this charge to him , in the name of the Lord Jesus .