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She shall go by the 'Guadala'." "Great Heavens!" said Bai-Jove Judson, flushed but composed, "that reminds me I've left that boat stuck on her broadside down the river. I must go down and soothe the commandante. He'll be blue with rage. Governor, let us go a sail on the river to cool our heads. A picnic, you understand." "Ya as, everything I understand. Ho! A picnica!
"I have come, senor, to ask a pardon for my brother. He is very dear to me and to my mother" she clasped her hands and held them toward him supplicatingly. "Senor, if Benito should be captured you will have mercy?" The commander regarded her with puzzled interest. "Who is Benito, little one?" "His name is Windham. My father was a gring Americano, Commandante." Hull frowned.
General Vallejo, with regret, hands Miguel an order relieving him from duty. He is named Commandante of the San Joaquin valley, under the slopes of the undefiled Sierras. Laden with messages, despatches, and precious letters for the ranches on the road to the Golden Gate, he departs. These are entrusted to the veteran sergeant, major-domo and shadow of his beloved master.
Then we went to the Commandante and found that the mosers had had Jeffs. arrested for not paying them on their arrival at Tegucigalpa, as we had distinctly told them we would not do but at San Pedro from where we took them, on their return. It was only a spite case suggested by Jeffs. thrashing their leader. The Commandante gave them a scolding and we went out in triumph. February 4th
Skeleton legs and arms protruded from out the heaps. Soft moans of mothers and the wailing of little children gave evidence of so many living deaths. I presented my credentials to the commandante. He was the most genial Spanish official I had met between Havana and Guadaloupe. When he smiled, his face was all kindness. When he spoke of the reconcentrados, tears welled from his eyes.
"Well?" demanded Concha. "Well?" "Why should you hate him?" "Do you ask me that, Concha, when he makes a fence of himself about you, and his fine eyes practised is nearer the mark look at no one else?" "But why should that cause you jealousy? He is a man of the world, accustomed to make himself agreeable, and I am the daughter of the Commandante." "He is more in love with you than he knows."
Senor commandante, I shall have the honour of presenting you with the result of our sport." I was naturally eager to accept the invitation of my new friend, and my uncle making no objections, I agreed to accompany him. After smoking his meerschaum for the best part of an hour, he declared himself ready to start.
"Thank you: many thanks," replied the colonel, with an expression of disappointment. "Then I had better prepare the letter?" "Carta por senhor commandante," interrupted a Portuguese, presenting a letter to the colonel; "O senhor embaixo; queir risposta." The colonel opened the letter, which contained Mr Sullivan's challenge, pistols to-morrow morn, at daylight one mile on the road to Machico.
The cargo was cotton, valued at one hundred thousand dollars; and the captain was fined six thousand dollars. The United States consul applied to the captain-general for redress, but no satisfaction was obtained. A gang of men with lighters were sent to the ship under the charge of the commandante, who ordered the captain of the Black Warrior to discharge her cargo. This he refused to do.
Rezanov made the storm his excuse for not dining and dancing as usual at the house of the Commandante. But the relations between the Presidio and the Juno during the next few days were by no means strained.
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