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The boat touched the pier. A small man in civilian dress walked smartly to the land. He had a riding-whip in his hand, symbol of his rule: for this was Tacon, and within a month he was to whip crime into its dens and make the capital of Cuba safe. His first order carried consternation to the advocates of fuss and feathers.
"First, Excellency, will you give me your knightly word that you will grant a free pardon to me, a personal pardon, if I reveal all that you require?" "I pledge you my word of honor," replied the Governor. "No matter how heinous in the eyes of the law my offenses may have been, still you will pardon me under the King's seal?" "Why all this reiteration?" asked Tacon impatiently.
Tacon, after gathering in two thousand of the riff-raff and putting them at work on roads, piers, and prisons, applied himself with special energy to the suppression of Marti, the most daring, yet the slyest and most cautious of all the robbers in the country.
"I knew that I could trust you in the selection of your followers," said the marquis, quietly. "Here are your orders; you will open them when at sea, and see that you carry them out in the spirit as well as in the letter. You will, of course, be well provided with flags. It may be convenient, at times, to sail under some other flag than that of Spain." Don Tacon smiled.
"I say you have naught to fear," continued Tacon; "the offered reward involves unconditional pardon to the informant." "You offer an additional reward, Excellency, for the discovery of the leader of the contrabandists, Captain Marti." "Ay." "It is a full revelation I have come hither to make." "Speak, then."
Marti smiled, drew from beneath his coat two larger ones, handsomely mounted with silver, and placed them on the desk. "I am through with them," said he. Tacon looked at him almost with admiration. "You begin well," he admitted, "and you shall have your pardon. But until you have fulfilled your promise and helped us to break up these bands of smugglers and ah " "Oh, speak out: Thieves!
This characteristic is something apart from genius or technical skill, and is peculiarly an emanation from the personality of the man. In the spring of 1837 Gottschalk found himself in Havana, whither he had gone to make the beginning of a musical tour through the West Indies. His first concert was given at the Tacon Theatre, which Mr.
An odd modern instance is told in the case of an American newspaper reporter, John C. Klein, who, after ten years of absence, was canonized by the Samoans, among whom he had lived for some years, as a hero in battle, a slayer of Germans, and a wizard who closed his own wounds by magic. And with Tacon it took hardly longer to become a sort of national hero.
"Excellency, I must do so with caution," said the stranger, "otherwise I may condemn myself by what I have to communicate." "Not so," interrupted Tacon, "the offer" "I know, Excellency, a free pardon is promised to him who shall turn state's evidence, but there may be circumstances" "The offer is unconditional, as it regards pardon." "True, but"
The Tacon Theatre took on the appearance of a limitless pit into which all human life had been poured, arbitrarily thrown together, and, in the semblance of masquerading gaiety, made to whirl in a time that had in its measure the rattle of bones, a drumming on skulls.
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