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He got a million dollars out of it, but took it into his head one day to overturn the Government, and was captured and his money taken; barely escaped the garrote by strangling his jailer; owned the mine still, and should go back and get it some day, when he had accomplished certain purposes in this country. There were plenty of people who wished he was gone now.
Fashionable Streets of the City. Tradesmen's Signs. Bankrupt Condition of Traders. The Spanish Array. Exiled Patriots. Arrival of Recruits. The Garrote. A Military Execution. Cuban Milk Dealers. Exposure of Domestic Life. Living in the Open Air. The Campo Santo of Havana. A Funeral Cortége. Punishing Slaves. Campo de Marte. Hotel Telegrafo. Environs of the City. Bishop's Garden.
Three months after this accident I was taken prisoner by the Spanish and shipped to Spain as a political malefactor. A farce of a trial was granted to me, not to see whether or not I was guilty, but simply to determine between the dungeon and the garrote. It would have been far better for me had I been sentenced to the latter instead of the former.
No, I believe this fellow, low as he is, not only loves but worships this future wife of mine, ha! ha! and I believe also that no danger, not even the prospect of the garrote, will frighten him from the settlement so long as he has the hope of another clandestine tete-a-tete with her; and, knowing that she is ready to meet him half-way in such a matter, he will not have lost hope yet.
"They don't want to let me go before learning what I suspect. I won't do a thing but fool them in that." "Police be hanged!" Cervera quickly added. "In my country we have a surer way of removing such villains as you." "What way?" queried Nick, coolly. "Caramba! The garrote!" "Choke 'em off, eh?" "Or the poniard!" "A stab between the ribs, I take it." "Yes! It is what you deserve."
The twitch-up, erected on a large scale, is utilized to a considerable extent in England in the capture of these animals; and these, together with steel traps and dead-falls, are about the only machines used for their capture. We would suggest the garrote, bow and gun trap also as being very effective.
The exception was the admiral, who died a heretic, while obstinately uttering a thousand blasphemies against our holy faith; he was executed by the garrote, and thrown into the sea. The other twelve reflected, and, in great anguish for their sins, were converted to our Lord. They professed our holy Catholic faith and rendered obedience to the holy Roman church.
So I put it to him squarely that, come what might, I didn't intend to go and leave the coast clear for him; and that if he fired a shot, whether or not he jugged me and tasted el garrote into the bargain, he would most assuredly not get hold of the Recipe.
Boston burst out in eloquent denunciation of the Bowery assassin's knife. New York was placidly pleased to revert to a tale of bloodshed in the abiding-place of Massachusetts authority, the State Prison. Boston fell back upon the garrote, "the meanest and most diabolical invention of Five-Point villany, a thing unknown, Sir, and never to be known with us, while our police system lasts!"
"Living there, which he could not have done here unless he had been bullet-proof, or had a neck harder than the iron collar of the garrote." "Herrera!" repeated the cura musingly "I know the name, but there are many who bear it. There was a Manuel Herrera who sat in the Cortes in the days of the constitutionalists, and afterwards commanded a battalion of their rabble. You do not mean him?"
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