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Updated: May 31, 2025
It will be interesting briefly to note the employment of Indians by the Spaniards. Their agent, or leader, in this horrible warfare, was a wretch named Benavides, who may fairly lay claim to the distinction of being the most perfect monster who ever disgraced humanity.
Hozier took a listless interest in watching the furtive glances cast over his shoulder by San Benavides so long as the south coast of the island was visible. At each turn in the mountain track the Brazilian officer searched the moonlit sea for the agreed signal.
Perchance by daybreak I may arrive at some plan. At present, you and I are in difficulties, is it not?" Iris recognized the voluble, jerky speech. A wild foreboding gripped her heart until she was like to shudder under its fierce anguish. "You, Captain San Benavides?" she asked, and her utterance was unnaturally calm. "I, mademoiselle," he said, "and, alas! I am alone. May I come in?
Won't you wish me luck?" "I wish you all good fortune, Dom Corria," said Iris. "May your plans succeed without bloodshed!" "Ah, this is South America, remember. Our conflicts are usually short and fierce. Au revoir, Mr. Hozier. By daybreak we shall be better friends." San Benavides also bade them farewell, with an easy grace not wholly devoid of melodramatic pathos.
I shall die a little later, when many more of my friends are killed. Why not die now?" They would not listen. "It is night!" they cried. "The enemy's horses are spent. A determined stand may give us another chance." But it was a forlorn hope. As San Benavides lurched into the patèo, the horses of the first pursuing detachment strained up the slope between house and encampment.
From thence he learned that the captain of the Ocean, with several English and American seamen had been left at Arauca, when Benavides went on his expedition, and he sailed for that place immediately. He was too late, however; the Chilian forces had already made a successful attack, and the Indians had fled, setting fire to the town and the ships.
"Who is he?" demanded Hozier darkly. "Coke is married. So is Watts. Dom Corria has other fish to fry than to dream of committing bigamy. Of course, I am well aware that you have been flirting outrageously with San Benavides " "Please don't make my duty harder for me," pleaded Iris. "Before I met you, before we spoke to each other that first day at Liverpool, I had promised to marry Mr.
The manners of the officers of the detachment at Fort San Antonio were not to be compared with those of Captain San Benavides. Her heart went out to him. "We must try to help you, Senhor Capitano," she said. "If the others are dead or taken, you may not be missed." He threw out his hands in an eloquent gesture. Life or death was a matter of complete indifference to him, it implied.
And the inhabitants of neither Brussels nor Bootle settle their political differences by shooting casual visitors at sight. Oddly enough, the only professional soldier present condemned her project roundly when it was mooted. "In leaving the island to-night you are acting on an assumption," protested Captain San Benavides to his chief. "You cannot be sure that the Andros-y-Mela will not appear.
You and your men manage to dodge the bullets, and, under my leadership, assisted by Captain San Benavides, you overrun the place by night, kill several soldiers, seize a launch, despoil peasants of their crops and stores, and make off with a good deal of property belonging to the Brazilian Government, not to mention the presence in your midst of such a significant personage as myself.
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