Y FIVE.

NEW ADVENTURES AND SUCCESSES.

As Oliver, who went first, had just got to the top, his attention was
attracted by loud shouts coming from the rear of the fort. Above them
quickly rose a hearty British cheer. Showers of bullets came flying
through the air. The shouts and cries increased. Amid the clash of
steel, and the sharp crack of pistols, the voices of the officers
reached him calling the men to abandon the guns and defend the fort.
But it was too late. Already a strong party of blue-jackets and marines
were inside.

The gate in the rear, insufficiently protected, had evidently been taken
by a rush. The Frenchmen, as they always do, fought bravely, but
hurrying up without order, many of them without muskets, they were
driven back.

Even had they been better disciplined, nothing could have withstood the
fierce onslaught of the British. Numbers of the defenders were seen to
fall, their officers being killed or made prisoners. Most of the
remainder, taking to flight, crept through the embrasures or leapt over
the parapet.

Directly Oliver announced what was going on, the rest of the party were
more eager than ever to get out. Jack was the last drawn up, and they
all, with Le Duc, dropped on the ground.

"Hullo! here's a firelock, and a bayonet at the end of it," said Brown,
picking up a musket which the sentry had probably thrown down when
making his escape. "Hurrah, boys! we'll charge the mounseers, and make
them wish they'd never set eyes on us."

Brown, in his eagerness, would have set off without waiting for his
companions. Three muskets were found piled close outside of the prison,
and a little way off lay the body of an officer who had been shot while
making his way to the rear.

Rayner took possession of his sword. The victorious assailants were now
sweeping onwards towards the farther end of the fort, in which direction
most of the garrison had fled.

At the other end Rayner observed a group of men, either undecided how to
act or waiting an opportunity to attack the British in the rear, for
they could now see by the increasing daylight that it was but a small
party which had surprised the fort.

Brown had seen them also, and, excited at finding himself at liberty,
rushed forward with his musket at the charge, without waiting for his
companions.

They, however, coming out from behind the buildings, were following in
the rear.

On seeing them approach, a French officer, stepp