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Benavides was custodian of the Franciscan province of New Mexico for some time, and therefore had good opportunity of knowing both the country and its natives.
When tranquillity was restored, the soldiers marched off to their quarters, and Colonel San Benavides boarded the Unser Fritz. He invited Iris, Schmidt, Coke, and Hozier to breakfast with the President at the principal hotel. Watts was not included in the list of guests. Being indignant, he expressed himself freely. "Nice thing!" he said to Norrie. "We're not good enough to be axed.
Both the Apaches and the Navajos also receive some attention, Benavides giving, among others, the true reason for the hostility which the Apaches displayed since that time against the Spanish settlements. It is a book without which the study of the Pueblo Indians could not be satisfactory. Where there is strong light there must of necessity be some shadow.
"Good job we came here," he said. "It is evident they mean to maintain a patrol until there is news of De Sylva one way or the other. It will be interesting now to hear what the gallant San Benavides says. If any ship comes to Fernando Noronha to-night she will be seen from the island long before any signal is visible at this point." "Do you think the others saw the launch?" she asked.
Well laden, all five hastened to the creek, and Hozier, Iris, and San Benavides, boarded the larger of the two catamarans. The strong wind had partly dissipated the noisome odor, but it was still perceptible. Iris was sure she would never like mangroves.
His little cohort had done wonders, it is true, but of what avail were these ill-equipped stalwarts against a fast-moving fort, armed with heavy guns and propelled by thousands of steam horses? None, absolutely none. Dom Corria drew San Benavides aside. "All is ended!" he said quietly. "We shall never see Brazil again, Salvador meu! Carmela must find another lover, it seems."
"I'm goin' to 'ave a nap," he announced. "Either you or Watts must take 'old. W'ich is it to be?" "No need to ask Mr. Hozier any such question," said the suave Dom Corria. "You can trust him implicitly. He is with us now to the death. Captain San Benavides, a word with you." "South a bit," repeated the skipper. "Call me at two bells in the second dog."
"Who is the officer of the guard?" San Benavides asked the soldier. "Tell him, with my compliments, that I shall be glad to meet him at the colonel's quarters in fifteen minutes." The queerly-assorted pair moved off across the barrack square. The sentry looked after them. "My excellent captain seems to have been brawling," he grinned. "But what of the mendigo?" What, indeed?
Being sent with too small a detachment against the savage Indians, their commander, Benavides, cut his forces in pieces and murdered all the officers in a most cruel manner. O'Carroll had his tongue cut out and was then butchered. Lieutenant Colonel Moran, who commanded the Colombian legion at the battle of Ayachucho, probably came out in the legion of General Devereux.
Long before Carmela reached the finca, San Benavides stirred, groaned, squirmed convulsively, and raised himself on hands and knees. He turned, and sat down, feeling his head. "The spit-fire!" he muttered. "The she-devil! And that other! Would that I could wring her neck!" A sputtering of rifles crackled in the valley. There was a blurred clamor of voices.
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