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Updated: May 8, 2025
But he was not so selfish, good man, as to enjoy either ice or wine alone; Don Pedro, colonel of the soldiers on board, Don Alverez, intendant of his Catholic majesty's customs at Santa Marta, and Don Paul, captain of mariners in The City of the True Cross, had, by his especial request, come to his assistance that evening, and with two friars, who sat at the lower end of the table, were doing their best to prevent the good man from taking too bitterly to heart the present unsatisfactory state of his cathedral town, which had just been sacked and burnt by an old friend of ours, Sir Francis Drake.
A whispered conversation followed, and Alverez finally exclaimed: "I'll do it! Wait here. Watch Piang." Then he hurried off. Without approaching Kali, or divulging the secret to any one, Piang followed the men to the dock, and Sicto laughed softly as he watched the unsuspecting boy walk into the trap.
His plays are very popular because they touch an audience even to tears, and he has several followers or imitators. The comedies of manners and satirical plays are generally the work of Eusebio Blasco, Ramos Carrion, Echegaray the younger, Estremada, Alverez, though there are others whose names are legion. Echegaray is really a man of genius.
Piang was laughing merrily when he was startled by a noise, and turning, he saw Alverez and a soldier running toward him. Instantly everything was confusion, and Piang realized that he was the center of the excitement. "Are you Piang?" asked the soldier, cautiously approaching him. "Sure, me Piang." "Hike! Beat it!" said the man, pointing to the Sabah. What did he mean?
Safety-pins and their surprises had to be investigated, and an admiring throng crowded around, marveling at Kali's daring. "Kali!" Piang exclaimed suddenly. "Look!" Seated at a table in front of a Chino café, were three men in earnest conversation: Alverez, a Filipino mestizo, who had acquired by deception the Moro title, Dato Tamangung; his cousin Vincente; and the Moro malcontent, Sicto.
"A leper!" cried the boy and suddenly he realized that he had been trapped by that villain, Sicto. Not Sicto, but Alverez had filched the order for the confinement of a leper, had erased the name, and substituted Piang's. He flung the damning paper from him. As the boy darted off through the jungle, the old woman yelled.
A glance at his chief had warned Kali that trouble was in the air. Sicto, Alverez, and Vincente moved off toward the dock. "Sicto, did Piang hear what I said?" asked Alverez. "Does the jungle hear the trumpeting of the elephant?" angrily retorted Sicto. "He hasn't spoken to any one yet," said Vincente, significantly. "We had better get rid of him before "
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