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Updated: June 4, 2025
Carlo, blanched with fear at the threats and curses that filled the night, sprang toward the passageway that appeared. Megales plucked him back. "One moment, general. Ladies first. Carmencita, enter." Carlo followed her, after him the governor, and lastly Gabilonda, tearing himself from a whispered conversation with O'Halloran.
The governor found it a tight fit, as did also Gabilonda. "I was more slender last time I passed through there. It has been several years since then," said the governor, giving his daughter a hand to assist her through. They found themselves in a small chamber fitted up as a living room in a simple way. There were three plain chairs, a bed, a table, and a dresser, as well as a cooking stove.
For Colonel Ferdinand Gabilonda, warden of the prison, had a shrewd suspicion that a plot was under way to overthrow the unpopular administration of Megales, and though he was an office-holder under the present government he had no objection to ingratiating himself with the opposition, providing it could be done without compromising himself openly.
Leaving the former governor and General Carlo in the cell just vacated by them, Frances and he accompanied Gabilonda to the secret room behind the corridor wall. All three parties to the introduction that followed acknowledged secretly to a surprise. Miss Carmencita had expected the friend of big, rough, homely O'Halloran to resemble him in kind, at least.
Cautiously the Spaniard's glance traveled down the passage to see it was empty before he opened the panel door more than enough to look through. Then he beckoned to Gabilonda. "Behold, doubting Thomas!" The warden gasped. "And I never knew it, never had a suspicion of it." "But this only brings us from one prison to another," objected the general.
"If you will kindly write notes, I will send a messenger to General Carlo and another to Colonel Gabilonda requesting their attendance. I think affairs may be quickly arranged." "You are irresistible, senor. I hasten to obey." Megales sat down and wrote two notes, which he turned over to O'Halloran. The latter read them, saw them officially sealed, and dispatched them to their destinations.
"But if it was good enough for me and my pardner, here, I reckon it's good enough for them. Anyhow, we'll let them try it, won't we, Frank." "If you think best, Bucky." "You bet I do." "And what about the governor's daughter?" asked Gabilonda. "You don't say! Is she a guest of this tavern?"
Bucky's eyes opened wide when Gabilonda and Megales came alone and without a lantern to his cell. In the darkness it was impossible to recognize them, but once within the closed cell the warden produced a dark lantern from under his coat. "Circumstances have arisen that make the utmost vigilance necessary," explained the warden.
"And is also a convenience to me," smiled Carlo, who was beginning to recover from his terror. "But I don't quite understand yet how we are to get out of here except by going back the way we came," said Gabilonda. "Which for some of us might prove a dangerously unhealthy journey. True, colonel, and therefore one to be avoided."
When Pesquiera's order to massacre the invaders were read, Gabilonda, second in command, swore he would have nothing to do with it, and mounting his horse swung the little boy Evans behind him and galloped away to Altar. Gabilonda carried him to Guaymas, from where he was afterwards sent to California.
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