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Updated: June 17, 2025
From the top of the hill they could see that the greater number of the houses were in darkness, but in a large building of two stories lights were shining from every window. "That is the comandancia," said the driver, shaking his head. "They are still awake. It is a telegraph station." "Great Scott!" exclaimed MacWilliams. "We forgot the telegraph. They may have sent word to head us off already."
After sympathising with him in a general way, I asked him whether he could really sleep in that position. "No," he replied, with indifference. "But, do you know, I do not mind about being taken. They will send me to the comandancia, I suppose, and after a few days liberate me. I am a good workman on horseback, and there will not be wanting some estanciero in need of hands to get me out.
At the top of it were scattered a dozen childish looking soldiers in the most unkempt and disheveled array of rags and lack thereof a cartoonist could picture. They formed in a hollow square about us and steered us toward the "comandancia," a few yards beyond. This was a thatched mud hut with a lame bench and a row of aged muskets in the shade along its wall.
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