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"The 'teniente primero, who, as next in authority, took charge of affairs upon the death of his superior, sent a man during the day to ask me if I would come to the tribunal. He was a very decent man, or would have been, I think, under a different executive.
As to the use of mosquito nets, he considered it effeminate, shameful unworthy of a soldier. "I noticed at the first glance that his face, already very red, wore an expression of high good-humour. "'Aha! senor teniente, he cried loudly, as I saluted at the door. 'Behold! Your strong man has turned up again.
"You damned fool!" said Blackbeard contemptuously. "It wasn't 'Tonio; it was your own people gave you up. It wasn't 'Tonio; it was your own brother shot Teniente Willett. His own revolver was found at the spot. Your own people say he did it!" "Lie! Lie!" shrieked Sanchez, livid from fright and amaze. "José no have pistol that night. José lose him to Case monte two days before! Case shoot him!
I seem to know the name. Is he a general?" "Scarcely, I should think. He was only a teniente of guerillas when we parted some ten years ago." "They are all generals now, my dear sir, and as plentiful as frogs in my native land. If you are ever in doubt as to the rank of a Venezolano, you are always safe in addressing him as a general. Yes, I fancy you will find your friend alive.
I was like a child, and did not know what would happen. I was anxious to be comforted in my helplessness and remorse. "'Have you the authority, senor teniente, to release my wrists from their bonds? Gaspar Ruiz's head asked me. "His features expressed no anxiety, no hope; his heavy eyelids blinked upon his eyes that looked past me straight into the courtyard.
"This time, Roblez, we've made a pretty fair haul of it," remarked he who bestrode the black. "What with the silks and laces to say nothing of this splendid mount between my legs I think I may say that our time has not been thrown away." "Yours hasn't, anyhow. My share won't be much." "Come, come, teniente! don't talk in that way. You should be satisfied with a share proportioned to your rank.
"Ten men would not have been enough to make him a prisoner, mi teniente. Moreover, the other three rejoined the detachment after dark. Why should he, unwounded and the strongest of them all, have failed to do so?" "My strength is as nothing against a mounted man with a lasso," Gaspar Ruiz protested, eagerly. "He dragged me behind his horse for half a mile."
It is connected with the main part of the mountain by a narrow ridge, barely broad enough for a mule-path, with treeless slopes on either hand, so steep, that, on our return, the Teniente preferred risking an attack of "palpitation" to riding along its crest.
What do you call him? Dick of Devonshire? Med. Because he is a soldier let him have A soldier's honour; bring him from his prison Full in the face of the whole Towne of Sherrys, With drums and musketts. Mac. How many soldiers are in the Towne? Clarke. 5000. Med. Let 200 march hither along with him as his guard: where's the Teniente? Ten. Here, my Lord. Med. Pray, see this done & in good order.
The teniente of Colonel Mejia, one of the guerilla leaders, was in the town on a secret errand, and would set out on his return journey in three days. If I liked I might go with him, and I could not have a better guide or a more trustworthy companion. It was a chance not to be lost.
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