CHAPTER XLIII 
THE RESULT 
As soon as the first report of the battle reached 
me, I telephoned to Bill Jackson, asking him to 
come at once to Four Oaks and to bring a man 
with him. When he arrived, attended by his 
big Irishman, my men had already put one of the 
farm teams to a great farm wagon, and had filled 
the box nearly full of hay. We gave Jackson a 
hurried account of the fight and asked him to go 
at once and offer relief to the wounded, —if such 
relief were needed. Jackson was willing enough 
to go, but he was greatly disappointed that he 
had missed the fight; it seemed unnatural that 
there should be a big fight in his neighborhood 
and he not in it. 
«I'd give a ten-acre lot to have been with you, 
lads,” said the big farmer as he started off. 
Word had been sent to Dr. High to be ready 
to care for some broken heads. Two hours later 
I drove to the Inn at Exeter and found the doc- 
tor just commencing the work of repair. Thir- 
teen men had been brought in by the wagon, 
twelve of them more or less cut and bruised 
about the head, and all needing some surgical 
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