he said, "You are in good order, soldiers, and therefore you shall
take your part in this glorious day, which is just dawning for our
whole Christian armada. We will attack Barbarossa, soldiers. Do you
not already hear the drums and fifes in the camp? Do you see him
advancing yonder to meet the emperor? That side of his position is
assigned to you!"

"Vivat Carolus Quintus!" resounded through the ranks. Alba beckoned
the captains to him, and assigned to each his duty. He usually
mingled German and Spanish troops together, in order to stimulate the
courage of the combatants still higher by emulation. So it happened
even now that Heimbert and Fadrique were commanded to storm the very
same height, which, now gleaming with the morning light, they at once
recognized as that which had shone out so fiercely and full of
promise the night before.




CHAPTER VI.



Thrice had Fadrique and Heimbert almost forced their way to a rampart
in the fortifications, and thrice had they been repulsed with their
men into the valley below by the fierce opposition of the Turks. The
Mussulmans shouted after the retreating foe, clashed their weapons
with the triumph of victory, and with a scornful laugh asked whether
they would not come up again to give heart and brain to the scimitar
and their limbs to the falling beams of wood. The two captains,