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Updated: June 12, 2025
For five hours we had been lying in the blazing sun on the flat house- tops, or hidden in the shops around the plaza, and the government troops were still holding us off with one hand and spanking us with the other. Their guns were so good that, when Heinze attempted to take up a position against them with his old-style Gatlings, they swept him out of the street, as a fire-hose flushes a gutter.
He ran past us down the steps, and halting when he reached the street, turned and looked up at the great bulk of El Pecachua that rose in the fierce sunlight, calm and inscrutable, against the white, glaring masses of the clouds. "What is it?" I whispered. "Heinze!" Aiken answered, savagely. "Heinze has sold them Pecachua." I cried out, but again Laguerre commanded silence.
I will give these men a hearing after roll-call. In the meantime if they are spies, they have seen too much. Place them under guard; and if they try to escape, shoot them." I gave a short laugh and turned to Aiken. "That's the first intelligent military order I've heard yet," I said. Aiken scowled at me fearfully, and Reeder and Heinze gasped.
He sprang at Aiken, and Aiken shrank back. It made me sick to see him do it. I had such a contempt for the men against him that I hated his not standing up to them. It was to hide the fact that he had stepped back, that I jumped in front of him and pretended to restrain him. I tried to make it look as though had I not interfered, he would have struck at Heinze.
He tells me Graham offered Heinze twenty thousand dollars to buy off himself and the other officers and the men. But Heinze was afraid of the others, and so he planned to ask Laguerre for a native regiment, to pretend that he wanted them to work on the trenches.
"Oh, you ass!" he cried. "He came as a volunteer. He wanted to fight with you, for the sacred cause of liberty!" "Yes, he wanted to fight with us," shouted Heinze, indignantly. "As soon as he got into the camp, he wanted to fight with us." Laguerre made an exclamation of impatience, and rose unsteadily from the gun-carriage. "Silence!" he commanded. "I tell you I cannot listen to you now.
He rose suddenly, and, while still holding the sword close to him, shook my hand. "Captain Heinze," he said, "bring out a chair for Mr. Macklin." He did not notice the look of injury with which Heinze obeyed this request. But I did, and I enjoyed the spectacle, and as Heinze handed me the camp-chair I thanked him politely. I could afford to be generous.
Otto Heinze, and by implication Pfister, think nations that have too long or too assiduously cultivated peace must inevitably sooner or later relapse to the barbarisms of war to vent their instincts for combat, and Crile thinks anger most sthenic, while Cannon says it is the emotion into which most others tend to pass.
We will stab the fascist lackeys of Morgan, Rockefeller and Jack and Heinze in whatever portion of the anatomy they present to us." As usual, the recurring prophets who hold their seances between hostilities and invariably predict a quick, decisive war in 1861 they gave it six weeks; in 1914 they gave it six weeks; in 1941 they gave it six weeks were proved wrong.
It was when the human savageness of the rifle-fire was broken by a low mechanical rattle, like the whirr of a mowing-machine as one hears it across the hay-fields. It spanked the air with sharp hot reports. "Heinze has turned the Gatlings on them," he said. "They will be coming back soon." He closed the lid of his watch with a click and nodded gravely at me.
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