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Carmody has sent appeals in every direction he could think of for the funds to pay the hundred thousand dollar ransom demanded for the party. These requests have been carried on through agents of Cosetta, but none of the appeals have borne fruit.
"Cantor afterwards secured my permission to go ashore in civilian garb, on the plea that he had urgent private business. As the landing had been made, I permitted him to go. I have since discovered that Cantor had word of the Denmans being in Vera Cruz. Cosetta found the family for him, and Cantor made one last, desperate plea for Miss Denman's hand.
"Three weeks ago Carmody learned that it was high time for isolated Americans to reach the protection of some large town. Four hours out from the plantation the party was halted by a score of men led by a brigand named Cosetta, who is reported to be the right hand man of the notorious Zapata himself.
Darrin began to fear that the plot to rob this woman of her money was a well planned one, with many thieves interested in it. Through the crack of a slightly opened doorway the face of Cosetta, the bandit, appeared, his evil eyes glittering strangely. Dave looked up swiftly, his eyes turned straight on those of the bandit. "It's a plot, sure enough!" gasped the young ensign to himself.
So I've been the means of blocking another profitable enterprise for that fellow, Cosetta. By and by the scoundrel will feel a deep liking for me!" The first thief, he whose wrist Seaman Rogers had broken, had promptly vanished. Unmolested, the blue-jackets escorted the carriage out on to a dock next to the one at which the launch from the "Long Island" lay.
You will have your men lie flat on the ground, and I will take every precaution that my men do not fire upon you. If you see Cosetta or Cantor, you will know what to do." "Aye, aye, sir," responded Ensign Darrin. With the stealth of a cat Dave advanced, revolver in hand. He was behind the house, and within forty feet of the back door, when a crashing fire ripped out in front.
"I shouldn't have asked you that." "Here is the door, sir," Dave reported, in a whisper, halting and pointing. "I heard some one talking in there in low tones," reported Riley. "I couldn't make it out, for he was talking in Spanish." "I suspect that the voices were those of Lieutenant Cantor and Cosetta," Dave whispered. "If they don't get away, we'll soon know," Trent whispered.
"When we attack, Cantor and perhaps Cosetta, will try to escape from the rear of the house, making a quick dash for the interior, while Cosetta's men try to hold us in check. Therefore, Darrin, I am going to let you have fifteen men. You will make a wide detour of the house, and try to work to a position in the immediate rear.
Cosetta, who had been a bandit for many years, and who feared the time would come when his appearance in Vera Cruz would be followed by arrest and execution, wanted to turn the landing plans over to General Maas, the Mexican commander here. Imagine the temptation to Cantor when he thought he had the plans in his own hands!
Cantor did not know Cosetta until that chance meeting took place in the gambling house." A week later, Dave Darrin, his wound now almost healed, stood on the bridge of the "Long Island," Danny Grin at his side. They had just watched the landing of the last boatloads of General Funston's regulars. "I believe that winds up the Navy's chapter at Vera Cruz, Danny," said Ensign Darrin.
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