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I got within earshot of him unseen, and then, rising to my feet behind him, I said in a low voice, but loud enough for him to hear, 'Vilcaroya friend or foe? 'Halta! quien va? The words in the hated Spanish speech told me that he was a foe.
Night was falling when he reached the first line of sentinels and he heard that sound which made his blood surge: "Halta, cavagna," shouted by the sentry. "Comision especial telegrafos del sue marina," he answered, displaying his forged pass. The officer scanned the paper and gave him permission to pass on.
About ten o'clock on the morning of the fourth, they were stopped by the cry of "Halts, halta." Looking up from where the hail came, they saw the muzzles of thirty or forty rifles pointed at them. Colonel Sawyer loudly cried in answer to their command, "Amigos." In a few moments they were surrounded by a skirmishing party of Revolutionists and conveyed to the camp.
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