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“Admiral Cervera and many of his officers were taken off the shore by the Gloucester, and transferred to the Iowa, which ship had already taken off many from the Vizcaya; thirty-eight officers and 238 men were on board the Iowa, and seven officers and 203 men were aboard the Indiana.
The production of an artificial diamond! Not until Nick heard the stone door forcibly closed, and its iron bolts shot violently into their sockets, did he pay serious attention to Cervera, the venomous Spanish vixen left to guard him.
In the afternoon, Admiral Cervera sent an officer, under a flag of truce, to Admiral Sampson, telling him of their safety, and adding: "Daring like theirs makes the bitterest enemies proud that their fellow-men can be so brave." Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to Heaven. Shakespeare Be sure, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves. Patrick Henry.
The electric light had been extinguished by the lightning stroke, but Nick soon located the body of Cervera, and together the detectives brought her out and laid her upon the ground some rods away from the burning dwelling. "She's done for, poor wretch!" muttered Nick, as he looked at her bloodless face. He was right. Señora Cervera had danced her last dance a terrible one it was!
The result of his going to the latter place would have been to present the strategic problem already discussed. Cervera heard that our fleet was at San Juan, went to Curaçao, and afterwards to Santiago, because, as the Spanish Minister of Marine declared in the Cortes, it was the only port to which he could go.
Before Chick could discover any occasion for this mute display of feeling, the performance in front of the set scene concluded, and the act of the snake charmer was due to begin. Then came a rapid change of scenery, during which Chick was again obliged to change his position, and for a time he lost sight of Cervera in the stir and confusion of the busy stage.
If not, what sort of a game have they been playing here to-night?" Nick very quickly measured the various possibilities of the unusual situation. If the man whose name he had heard was indeed David Kilgore, then Rufus Venner, as well as Cervera, might be in league with the diamond gang, and the pretended robbery only a move made with some secret design.
At the end of eight minutes the whistling ceased, and Cervera coldly cried: "Now you may come in, Detective Carter. I am about ready to go with you." Mick at once entered the chamber. Cervera had changed her evening dress for a complete suit of black, and was standing in the middle of the room.
"There will be none to hear him." Then he hurried Pylotte and Matt Stall back to the Venner house, to land Chick Carter. Left alone with Nick, Cervera darted to the stone door in the solid wall, and secured it within. There was murder in her glittering eyes when she shot the heavy bolts into their iron sockets. In the heat of action and excitement ten minutes are as nothing.
Nick added, bluntly. Venner flushed deeply, and instantly shook his head. "Most assuredly not," he cried, with some feeling. "Señora Cervera dishonest? Impossible!" "Improbable, Mr. Venner, no doubt; but not impossible." "It is, sir," declared Venner, positively. "I know her well. Such an idea is absurd. Drop it at once, Detective Carter.
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