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This I picked up, and, telling Alzura to throw me the pole, proceeded to investigate. "Is it all right?" he cried softly. "Yes," said I, and stood back while he jumped across. "Caramba!" said he, "that's a nasty bit well over!" and I noticed that his limbs trembled. "All's well that ends well," I replied. "Come on, my boy; we've done the worst part, and the track's as plain as a pikestaff now.
I must come to see you, if there's time, and hear your story." O'Brien was quite right about the biting cold, but on that first night at least we hardly felt it. Dressed in our new clothes, comfortably wrapped in our ponchos, seated close to a roaring fire, and surrounded by old friends, Alzura and I felt amply repaid for all our toils and privations.
"Caramba!" exclaimed Alzura, when the meeting broke up, "it seems to me that the second battalion is likely to follow the first. What can we do against an army?" "There will be no fighting," I answered cheerfully. "They will simply march without us, and the government will agree to their demands." I spoke as if my opinion were conclusive, but nevertheless I did not sleep comfortably that night.
One would think he had just come from a pleasure-trip instead of being hunted through the mountains. I warrant the viceroy would count his capture cheap at half a million dollars." "Say a million, and it would still be cheap," said Alzura; and most of us agreed with him. General Miller apparently brought important information, as, shortly after his arrival, orders were issued for a fresh start.
Still, there is no doubt we owe our liberty in great part to his wonderful energy, together with his determination never to acknowledge defeat. He has toiled day and night like a slave." "I shall be glad when your regiment returns, Juan," said my mother. "I am longing to see your brave friends, and especially Alzura. I seem to know him quite well already." "You are sure to like him, mother.
Ah, it was not the first time some of them had heard such a wail!" "Sergeant," said Alzura, "you tell such lively stories that I wonder at any one becoming tired of your society!" "You are pleased to be merry," replied the man, "and I, too, can be the same, only not when speaking of the morass. Come, let us forget it for a while. Although you are my prisoners, you will not find me a harsh jailer."
"Wait!" growled the crusty old major; "you'll soon know." This sounded very mysterious, but in a short time the secret was out. We had just settled ourselves comfortably when Alzura started up, and some one said, in a tone of great disgust, "Mosquitoes!" They were very fine specimens, and, I suppose, exceedingly angry at our invasion of their territory.
It's a good thing I didn't start on this journey alone; I should be with my provisions now." "It's always pleasanter to have company," said I, shivering, and not noticing the absurdity till Alzura laughed. There was certainly very little pleasure in our position just then. We were wet through, chilled to the marrow, and plastered with mud from head to foot.
However, it seemed to me that Alzura was making up his mind to go. Every day he let fall broad hints, and at last stated his intentions without reserve. "Juan," said he one evening, "I'm going. The war may last a couple of years yet. Are you coming with me? Don't if you'd rather not risk it." "Have you counted the cost?" "Yes.
The colonel was giving all kinds of impossible orders; in fact, you would have thought we had quite a big army there. Next morning I escorted the Royalist a mile or so on the road. All our men were spread out, some in fatigue dress, to make him believe there were at least two regiments." "That was a good trick," laughed Alzura.
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