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Updated: May 5, 2025
One was the creator and the other the preserver of his nation." "How do I compare with Washington and Lincoln?" The question for the moment took away the breath of the American. He looked into the crimson, flabby countenance and wondered if the man was in earnest. He was. By great effort, Major Starland held back the laugh tugging at the corners of his mouth.
Had General Yozarro followed his own promptings, he would have withdrawn, but he lacked the courage to do that, and in his dilemma tried diplomacy. "Major Starland, I have naught against you, though you have stolen my property, but I have the right to demand that you surrender the deserter with you. Do that, and we will trouble you no more."
Guzman and Martella came to the upper deck, where Major Starland was holding converse with Captain Ortega. "I wish," said the Major, speaking too low for the Captain to hear him, "you would find out how many are in the boat yonder. I make it six." The three gave several minutes to scrutiny and agreed there were seven, which was more than had been supposed.
Major Starland and the others noted that the deserter was in high spirits, but no one could understand why this should be the case. "It is as I thought," said Martella; "the gunboat landed General Yozarro and the officers who have gone to the Castle." "We knew that before." "And he did not dream of the presence of our boat so near. Things would have been different had he known it."
"I am so accustomed to revolutions," said he with a grin and shrug, "that I should die of weariness in your noble country, but here I shall have all that my heart craves." "It has much that look," replied Major Starland, as he shook him by the hand, after compelling him to accept a generous douceur from himself and Miss Starland.
Major Starland took it upon himself to enlighten him and his friends, doing so with a succinctness that left no doubt in the mind of any one. The broad face grew solemn, when he succeeded at last in comprehending the remarkable story. "You will permit me to say, Major, that you have committed a serious international offence." "And I am prepared to bear all the consequences of my crime."
The Captain calmly met the flickering glare and the General shifted it to Major Starland on his right, who was looking through the open window on the other side of the apartment, as if the blue sky, with its fleecy clouds, framed by the opening, was all that interested him. None the less, he was thinking hard and not a word escaped him.
The South American insisted that Warrenia should make her long-promised visit, and the daughter of the North was eager to do so. The journey, however, was so long and difficult that no practicable way presented itself until in a twinkling, as may be said, the path was cleared by the decision of Major Starland to double Cape Horn with his yacht.
"That puts a different face on matters," was the comment of the American; "it would be madness to attack such a force when we have only one rifle among us." Until now Major Starland had held slight opinion of the courage and ability of the deserter, but the latter straightway made a proposal whose daring fairly took away his breath.
Hardly a breath of air rippled the bright waters, and the sky overhead was brilliant with its myriads of stars, whose gleam was intensified in the soft crystalline atmosphere. Major Starland was seated on a camp chair, where he and Miss Rowland were sheltered from the wind created by the motion of the yacht. She hardly needed the gaudily-colored zarape wrapped about her shoulders.
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