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Updated: May 22, 2025
"And his good fortune will be no greater than mine; but, Warrenia, to leave the most winsome of subjects for the most hateful, you will be safer at Zalapata with Major Jack, but neither of you will be secure until you are on the yacht and beyond reach of General Bambos, as well as of General Yozarro. I could almost advise you to wait here, and yet something whispers it will not do."
"You mistake your man!" roared General Bambos; "you fail to see that that would relieve General Yozarro from punishment for his insults and outrages against Zalapata. It would encourage him to continue his infamous course, since our powerful neighbor on the north would relieve him from all penalty.
"You are right; that is what he said." "But he did not pay you the money; and, begging pardon again, Major, you intended to pay it yourself to President Bambos, as if it came from General Yozarro." "You would be called a mind reader, Captain, in my country, for you are right in everything you say. It will spoil his game, however, if General Bambos is as keen as you."
"What of it?" "General Bambos was a guest on your yacht." "Yes." "He met Señorita Starland; he has a wife and several children, but he loves the Señorita as much as does General Yozarro." "What a couple of wretches! Do you tell me that that is why he means to go to war with General Yozarro?"
General Yozarro set his teeth, and took consolation in the thought: "General Bambos will give him to me and I will punish him; I will do the same with Captain Guzman for aiding the foul ingrate." But the Dictator never did either. Jack Starland was not the one to forget the service of his friends.
The Atlamalcan Republic had its own methods and red tape ruled there as elsewhere. "I am sure that President Bambos could ask nothing more, and I shall take pleasure in repeating your gracious words to him." President Yozarro bowed, smiled, muttered "Gracias," and lit another cigarette.
He had proved himself a good soldier in more than one fight with their neighbors in that breeding-nest of revolutions. At the present time, the Warrenia was absent for a few days at San Luis, down the river, while Jack Starland was the honored guest of General Bambos, who was eager to secure his valuable military ability for the republic.
That would justify him in pursuing the ingrate to the uttermost confines of his dominion, and to make his shelter by General Bambos a casus belli, especially if the message left with the engineer of the tugboat had been delivered. His infatuation had destroyed his tact, judgment and sense, of which his furnishment had never been great.
He kicked the messenger down the steps of his palace, bidding him to tell our revered President that if he or anyone else came to him on a similar errand, he would ram him down the throat of one of his cannon and fire at the palace of General Bambos." "But that threat is idle," gravely remarked Major Starland. "Why?" demanded President Bambos.
"And I have a yacht with a single gun; with that my crew would make as short work of the General Yozarro as we did with the Spanish fleets at Manila and Santiago." Captain Guzman shrugged his shoulders and smoked in silence. "My boat will be here in two or three days. Then I shall ask no help from Bambos or any one else in this part of the world." "Why not wait, Major?
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