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THE ENEMY'S GEE AT NIGHT ATTACK. 97 Zavalichine had led, and drove it back down chap. the Kavine. ' — From this time — about midnight — until one other hour had passed, there was peace on the Woronzoff Heights. But again at one o'clock in the morning the sound of & ° firing tumult of more and more fighting began to make towards ° ° ° the more itself heard ; and the seat of conflict, this time, weste™ part of the was a part of the Kidge further west. Ria> o e nz0ff With his newly received detachment of the 7th Fusiliers now marching westward by fours along the course of the foremost parallel, Colonel colonel i ! i .li Kell y tak - Kelly made what haste he could towards the ingim . n i i ,, measures: sound of the firing; but the darkness and the state of the trench — still unfinished and en- cumbered with stone — made the progress of the troops somewhat slow; and the Colonel himself being able to move at a faster pace pushed for- ward impatiently in advance of his men. Soon, he met Lieutenant Jordan with some men of the 34th (the Colonel's own regiment), and by him was apprised that the Eussians had seemingly entered a part of the trench further west. The Colonel said that our people must try to drive the enemy out, told Jordan to get his men together, in- formed him that the detachment of 7th Fusiliers was coming up, and then once more hastened on towards the sound of the firing. He had gone but a little way further, when — standing together in the trench — he saw a group of seven or eight soldiers whom he took in the darkness to be men VOL. VIII. G