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At the sound of Aunt Sally's voice, indeed, they dropped the box they had been secreting and burst into a paroxysm of giggling, as was their customary receipt of her chiding. The giggle was always destined to end in tears, but this never prevented its recurrence. "Neddy Trent! If that bad little Garcia boy is doing wrong, it's no need you should be naughty, too.
It did not long remain so. Sancho died in 1072, and at once Alfonso and Garcia hurried back from exile to recover their lost realms. But Alfonso’s ambition equalled that of Sancho. All or none was his motto. Invading the kingdom of Galicia, he robbed Garcia of it and held him prisoner. Then he prepared to invade Castile, and offered the command of the army for this enterprise to the Cid.
Three small vessels were in the first instance obtained the Hercules, the Zefiro, and the Nancy. The command of these was given to an Irishman, William Brown, who lost no time in displaying his fitness for the post, and who, indeed, played the part of a lesser Cochrane. With his insignificant force he vanquished the Royalist fleet and captured the Island of Martin Garcia and blockaded Montevideo.
The answer came in an instant, for Garcia was coming slowly on. He paused for a few minutes when he reached the spot where we had watched from, and, stooping behind the rocks, he reloaded his piece; then, with his light above his head and his gun held ready, he pressed on, lighting us, though we were invisible to him, as we kept about fifty yards in advance.
After daylight broke we saw a muleteer attending a well-dressed woman with a parasol, and a little girl who seemed to be her servant. Said Garcia, 'There go two mules and two women whom St. Nicholas has sent us. I would rather have had four mules, but no matter. I'll do the best I can with these. "He took his blunderbuss, and went down the pathway, hiding himself among the brushwood.
Take me with you, Juan, I beseech you! and she caught him by the arm and clung to him. He shook her from him somewhat roughly, and as he did so his wide hat fell to the ground so that the moonlight shone upon his face. By Heaven! it was he Juan de Garcia and no other! I could not be mistaken.
So you see he is verbally correct; yet the deduction is false; in fact, who would ever go up with peace overtures to a man who was to be attacked during those overtures, as Masupha was? Garcia knew well enough what a surprise it was to him and me when we heard Sauer was sending the expedition. Garcia was with me at the time."
"Sanchez," he said, "this is our new comrade, Juan, who I told you would accompany us this journey." The man nodded. "It will be all the better," he said. "Twelve mules are rather too much for two men to manage, when we get among the mountains." Garcia and Terence at once set to work to assist, and in ten minutes the cavalcade started.
"Ah!" gasped Garcia, his face turning ghastly white, "it is that scoundrel of an Englishman! From whom have you stolen these clothes, senor?" he went on, at the same time taking a fresh grip of his sword- hilt and moving slightly nearer to Douglas. It was a lucky thing for Jim that he had never removed his eyes from those of Garcia, for he saw the murder that was lurking in them.
And with a deed for one half of the "Red-Rock Rancho" in his pocket, sent a brother lawyer in court to appear for his client, the United States, as against HIMSELF, Roscommon, Garcia, et al. Wild horses could not have torn him from this noble resolution. There is an indescribable delicacy in the legal profession which we literary folk ought to imitate. The United States lost!
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