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Updated: May 22, 2025
General Bambos hurriedly sagged down behind the pile of wood at the front, as if mortally hurt, but he was merely taking precautions against becoming so. "Quick!" roared General Yozarro; "sink their boat!" The haste was unwise, for the gunners were not wholly lacking in skill, but they were flustered by the furious orders of their brutal chief, and fired sooner than they intended.
Bambos could not gainsay this and he was now seeking to balance things, by floating a loan which was to be used in arming his troops with modern weapons.
"Neither he nor you have any ordnance big enough to allow a man to serve as a charge for it." "A quibble!" commented the Captain; "it does not lessen the deadly nature of the insult." "What is the amount of the claim?" General Bambos nodded to the Captain to answer. "Forty-two pesos."
"I shall join General Bambos in his war against Yozarro, and we'll make him pay dear for his deviltry." "Do you prefer the friendship of General Bambos to that of General Yozarro?" "I don't care a picayune for either, but I will use one against the other." "You forget that there is no choice between the good will of the two. When you came up the forked river you first called at Zalapata."
"I am afraid, dear friend from the North, that I see some things clearer than you; General Bambos is just as much infatuated with your loveliness as General Yozarro." "But he has a wife and family!" was the horrified exclamation of Miss Starland. "That makes not the slightest difference to him." An expression of unutterable scorn darkened the face of the American.
If they were, the capture would make your fortune. As it is, it would bring your ruin. General Bambos would be obliged not only to disavow the act, but to punish you for the offence." "I was thinking," said Martella, "that perhaps the Major would be willing to take the responsibility."
It abstracts a fragment of one's anatomy, so that, had General Bambos been placed on a delicate pair of scales immediately before and after his nipping, there would have been an appreciable difference in his weight. Since Major Starland himself had suffered from the fierce little pest, he understood what had befallen the other.
"But you did not look for such magnanimity, when in council with Captain Guzman and me. May I ask to what is due this marked change of sentiment on your part?" General Bambos lifted himself to his feet and swung across the cabin several times, finally crashing back to his former seat on the vexed lounge. "You have heard of General Simon Bolivar?" was his unexpected question. "Who has not?
"General Yozarro has not a braver or more honorable officer in his army. Three years ago, when we were at war with Atlamalco, and neither republic owned a fleet, we had a fight with three hundred Atlamalcans in the mountains. Each force was about the same and it was one of the hottest fights I ever saw, for the respective forces were commanded by Generals Bambos and Yozarro."
General Bambos was delighted for the time with the companionship of a man who had received the thorough military training of his visitor. Ignorant as most of the prominent South Americans are, the majority have heard of West Point, and all know something of the courage and achievements of the greatest nation in all the world.
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