"Yes, and a very brave one too; indeed, never a braver.  When he was a young man, and had not been many years in the army, he was terribly wounded in a battle, and lay on the field unable to raise himself to his feet or move from his place.  Thinking that some one might come round to plunder the dead and dying before his friends could find him--as, alas! there were some who were heartless enough to do in those days--and not wishing that his money should be taken from him, as he had several gold pieces about him, he managed to get these pieces out of his pocket, and then to glue them in his clenched hand with the clotted blood which had collected about one of his wounds.  Then he became insensible, and friends at last recovered his body and brought him to consciousness again, and the money was found safe in his unrelaxed grasp.  I mention this merely to show the cool and deliberate courage of the man; his wonderful pluck, as you would call it."