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Updated: May 20, 2025
As he spoke, the proprietor of the Wild West Show moved his great bulk in the forward seat, and produced a heavy-calibred revolver, that glistened in the starlight. "Get busy!" he ordered. "Y-y-y-y-yes, sir," stuttered the chauffeur, who had been hired in San Antonio, before the show crossed the border, and found itself in the country of the insurrectos.
In the east, where the Insurrectos were practically supreme, there was food of a sort, but beyond the Jucaro-Moron trocha the old one of Campos's building the country was sick. Immediately west of it, in that district which the Cubans called Las Villas, the land lay dying, while the entire provinces of Matanzas, Habana, and Pinar del Rio were practically dead.
A Surprise Party of Bolo-Men Forty Insurrectos Arrive in Our Neighborhood Anecdotes of Encounters with Insurgents Anxiety Because of Treachery of the Natives A False Alarm Five Hundred Starving Persons Great Lack of Institutions for the Poor Smallpox Patient in the School Building The Newspaper a Creator of Hysteria.
"I am afraid that your first experience with the insurrectos was a rough one, señores," said the general, with one of his sad smiles, using very fair English. "No rougher than we must expect," rejoined Jack crisply. The lad by now had begun to have an inkling of the situation.
"What's the name of this floating coffin?" he demanded in a chain-locker voice. It was quite evident that even in the darkness, where her many defects were mercifully hidden, the Maggie did not suit the special envoy of the Mexican insurrectos. "American steamer Maggie," said the skipper frigidly. "Scraggs is my name, sir. And if you don't like my vessel " "Scraggsy!" roared the special envoy.
To me it seemed anything but a peaceful time as the scouts were then out after a very desperate band of insurrectos, but I have never seen anywhere more beautiful ornamentation or more lavish display of wealth, and yet there was lacking in it all the genuine ring of cordiality and enthusiasm. In Iloilo there were many receptions and various kinds of entertainments given.
There was the off chance, of course, that the soldiers might be held up by another wing of the insurrectos, but there was every reason to hope for their arrival next day. Jimsy King sent the Yaqui up to Honor with the canteen, and the Indian returned to say that the Señorita had not touched one drop but had given it to the master.
The expulsion of the insurrectos had just been effected, and very few of the natives remained, but as soon as they were thoroughly convinced that our troops had actually taken the town, they flocked in by the hundreds, the men nearly naked, always barefoot, the women in their characteristic bright red skirts.
Texas is a State ordinarily peaceful, but you can not put 20,000 troops into it without running some risk of a collision between the people of that State, and especially the Mexicans who live in Texas near the border and who sympathize with the insurrectos, and the Federal soldiers. For that reason I beg you to be as careful as you can to prevent friction of any kind.
Evidently the mestizos expected nothing better than instant death. "Ralph, take your knife, and cut loose Pete and the professor, quick!" Jack gave the order without averting his eyes from the three scared insurrectos. While he and Walt kept the fellows covered, Ralph hastened to Pete's side, and in a few seconds the cow-puncher and the professor were free, although almost too stiff to move.
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