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Updated: May 28, 2025
This British officer has assured you as to the object of his journey, and unless that object has had the approval of the military authorities at Lisbon he would not have been furnished with an escort by them." "I have only his word and yours as to that," Cortingos said, insolently. "I am acting under the orders of the supreme authority of this province."
Yells of fury filled the air outside, shots were fired at the windows, and men began to beat the door and shutters with bludgeons and hatchets. Suddenly a light appeared from a window above, and Cortingos and his two friends were seen standing there. By the side of each stood a trooper, holding a rope with a noose round the prisoners' necks.
Terence's account of his interview with the colonel of the ordenancas, the demand by Cortingos that he should hand over the money he was escorting, and the subsequent gathering to attack the house, and the manner in which the leaders were captured, the rioters appeased and subsequently advised to direct their efforts to obtain arms and ammunition, excited exclamations of approval; but the belief that the story was a pure romance still prevailed in the minds of many, and Terence saw Captain O'Grady and Dick Ryan exchanging winks.
"Uniforms have been useful for purposes of disguise before now," Cortingos replied. "I again ask you to show me your authority." "Here is an authority," Terence broke in. "Here is a despatch from General Sir John Cradock to General Romana." "Ah, ah, a Spaniard."
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