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In his capacity of military surgeon he was not compromised like the rest of us; and after the revolt in the cuartel he was left free to follow his vocation.
Thus we came to the front of the Cuartel, where all the troops were already drawn up to do us honour, and Hartness came out to greet us. He stopped for an instant, and his cheeks paled a little as he saw Ruth riding at my side, already dressed as she would be when she was my queen. But then the goodness of his honest heart spoke from his lips, and he said, as he held out his hand to me,
Goodwin, at his deliberate gait, passed the long, low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered, with its bare toes pointed heavenward. There was a law that no civilian might come so near the headquarters of that citadel of war after nine o'clock, but Goodwin was always forgetting the minor statutes.
Cuartel, por el amor de Dios!" shrieked they in heart-rending tones but their supplications were not listened to, and every man of them would inevitably have been butchered, had not General Houston and the officers dashed in between the victors and the vanquished, and with the greatest difficulty, and by threats of cutting down our own men if they did not desist, put an end to this scene of bloodshed, and saved the Texian character from the stain of unmanly cruelty.
Then Roblez rose to go to the cuartel or barracks, where he had his place of sleeping and abode, bidding buena noche to his colonel. The latter also bethought him of bed, and, taking a lamp from the table, commenced moving towards his cuarto de camara.
Don Carlos was not slow in calling the printing-press to his aid. One of his first acts after his entry into his dominions was to start an official gazette, El Cuartel Real, the first number of which is before me as I write.
Until that is settled the editor of El Cuartel Real is perfectly justified in treating the volunteers of liberty, in those districts where Charles VII. virtually reigns, as armed rebels.
I will take the responsibility for our getting justice." "No!" some replied. "They did the same thing in Calamba. The same thing was promised, but the Alcalde did nothing. We want justice done by our own hands. To the cuartel!" In vain the teniente mayor argued with them. The group that had gathered showed no signs of changing its attitude or purpose.
In the light of the day which promised to be a splendid one could be seen in the distance, like ash-colored shadows, soldiers hurrying about in confusion. "There goes another corpse!" said some one from one of the windows. "One? I see two." "And so do I. But do you know what it was?" asked a man with a crafty face. "Certainly. The cuaderilleros." "No, Señor. An uprising at the cuartel."
There was now but one thing to do, and done it was. Some one in authority called out to the sentry on duty before the cuartel. "Kill him!" The sentry, who up to this time had been walking up and down as a sentry should, brought down his carbine, aimed at the running man, and dropped him in his tracks by a bullet through the heart.
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