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Updated: May 11, 2025
These people are all smiles and 'vivas' to-day because we are on top. But if we lost Pecachua, every man of them would turn against us." I laughed and said: "We can trust Heinze. If I had your opinion of my fellow-man, I'd blow my brains out." "If I hadn't had such a low opinion of my fellow-man," Aiken retorted, "he'd have blown your brains out. Don't forget that."
"You do not know that," he said; but his voice trembled, and his face was drawn in lines of deep concern. "I warned you!" Aiken cried, roughly. "I warned you yesterday; I told you to send Macklin to Pecachua." He turned on me and held me by the sleeve, but like Laguerre he still continued to look fearfully toward the mountain. "They came to me last night, Graham came to me," he whispered.
It is considered an affront to the Blessed Virgin, who first invented sleep. And those officers who that night guarded Pecachua being acquainted with Garcia's plot, were not expecting us until two nights later, when we were to walk into their parlor, and be torn to pieces.
Then messengers are to bring word that the Foreign Legion has been cut to pieces at Pecachua, and he is to disband his army, and tell every man to look out for himself. "If you want proofs of this, I'll furnish them to any man here that you'll pick out. I told Alvarez that one of your officers was working against you with me, and that at the proper time I'd produce him.
Consequently, when Miller, who knew Pecachua well, having served without political prejudice in six revolutions, led us up a by-path to its top, we found the government troops sleeping sweetly. Before their only sentry had discovered that someone was kneeling on his chest, our men were in possession of their batteries.
From that day we were the best of friends, and I think in time they grew to like me. Two days later we pitched camp outside of Tegucigalpa, the promised city, the capital of the Republic. Our points of attack were two: a stone bridge which joins the city proper with the suburbs, and a great hill of rock called El Pecachua. This hill either guards or betrays the capital.
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