the boys made good their escape, but the wounds they had received in the fight were of a most [pg 51]painful nature and required careful attention. frank's was the most severe, and had not jesse bandaged it with the greatest skill the outlaw must have bled to death before obtaining medical aid, for one of the veins in his neck had been severed. the two reached concepcion, a small town in texas, about one hundred miles from matamoras, where they remained in charge of a surgeon for nearly three months before their wounds had healed sufficiently to permit them to travel.