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I do hope they won't be defeated now, though, for if they are nobody can guess who will be Emperor of Mexico when they are driven away." "She is not so far wrong," said Tassara, sadly. "The future of our country is all in the dark. Please let us hear your report." Pablo, of course, had not followed his superiors into the parlor, and all who were there were free to discuss the situation.
He might not also have known that all but six of them were from the Tassara estates, and that the odd half-dozen were lifelong servants of the proscribed descendant of Hernando Cortes.
It was that very feeling, however, which in the minds of such men as Paredes and similar leaders was standing in the way of every effort to construct a genuine republic out of the people of the half-civilized States of Mexico. Ned's next questions related to the war, and he inquired how many more great battles Colonel Tassara had reported. "Battles?" exclaimed Señora Tassara.
Put Andrea on watch, and go to sleep. Our first danger is over." Pablo bowed and turned away without another word, and Zuroaga resumed his conference with Tassara, for those two were brave men, and were well-accustomed to the peril-haunted lives they were leading. "Colonel," he said, "it is evident that my young friend Carfora must go with you.
Even then, they did not enter it by the front door, but by a path which led down to the stables in the rear of the house. No outsider would afterward be able to say that he saw that party of men march into the courtyard to be welcomed by Colonel Tassara and the mysterious personage whom Ned was trying to think of as General Zuroaga.
Señora Tassara was saying something in a very low voice to Zuroaga, when Felicia turned to Ned and said to him: "You are a wicked gringo, but I like you pretty well and I do hope you will get away safely. Take good care of yourself." "Well, señorita," replied Ned, "I will do that, and so must you. I'd rather be out among the mountains than here in the city. You'd be safer there, too.
"Come into the house," said the señor, "and put on your Mexican rig. I have a message from Colonel Guerra that we must get away to-night. I must not bring any peril upon the Tassara family. Up to this hour no enemy knows that I was a passenger on the powder-boat, as they call it." "All right," said Ned. "I'll write one more letter home.
They were terrible! Can you not say that you are glad Señor Carfora was not drowned?" "No, mother," persisted Felicia. "I'll say I wish he had been drowned, if if he could have swum ashore afterward. Good enough for him." Señora Tassara laughed merrily, as she responded: "You are a dreadfully obstinate young patriot, my darling. But you must be a little more gracious.
But the peace terms are rejected by all the government we have left, and our city defences must soon go down as did those at Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Churubusco. We are to hear more about those affairs from Señor Carfora. He was an eye witness of them." "Oh, my dear young friend," said Señora Tassara, "were you with the American army in all those battles?" "No, not exactly," said Ned.
The captain and crew will be cared for, but that gringo boy is not safe, now that there has been bloodshed on the Rio Grande. Take him with you to the house of your cousin, Colonel Tassara, in the lower part of the city. Then get away to Oaxaca as soon as you can. President Paredes is still in the city of Mexico, and he will not go to take command of the army in the north for some time.
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