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Seen from the river, they have a striking resemblance to the gun-ports of an ancient battleship. This place is known to sailormen the world over as "The Cuartel" and probably takes its name from the fact that it was a sort of block house used by the Spanish, to hold the approaches to the river.
Catalina's gaze was once more turned upon the setting sun. In a few minutes he would disappear behind the snowy ridge of the mountain. Then a few hours, and then moments of bliss! Roblado was seated in his cuartel as before. As before, a tiny knock sounded upon the door.
"I'll go over to the Cuartel and pass the word for the men and do a little lookin' myself," said Peth. "Keep Dinshaw there half an hour," suggested Jarrow. Peth looked at him suspiciously. "What's the game?" "Never mind me or the game." "I seem to be kind o' out on the aidge o' things," growled the mate.
The lights of Coralio were drawing near. He could see the beach, the warehouse of the Bodega Nacional, the long, low cuartel occupied by the soldiers, and, behind that, gleaming in the moonlight, a stretch of high adobe wall. He had seen men stood with their faces to that wall and shot dead. Again he addressed the extravagant figure at the helm.
It was not, but a man pale and breathless a peon of the establishment who, on seeing her, gasped out, "Senorita! I bring sad news. There's been a mutiny at the cuartel a pronunciamento. The rebels have had it all their own way, and I am sorry to tell you that the colonel, your brother " "What of him? Speak! Is he " "Not killed, nina; only wounded, and a prisoner."
Hal and Noll bolted through the rain, darted into the quilez through the door at the rear, and plumped themselves down on the seats. "Sigue directio, Malate, cuartel nipa," ordered Hal, thus instructing the driver to go straight ahead to Malate and to take them to the nipa barracks. The Filipino driver himself was drenched.
The bright blood in her cheeks told me that she had understood me, and she turned her head away, but she did not take her hand from Hartness's, and so I gave my hand to Ruth and led her into the Cuartel, and Hartness and Golden Star followed us hand in hand amidst the cheers of the soldiers and the joyful shouts of the people.
Then I sat down with them and told them all, from the taking of the Governor and his officers prisoners by the Sayacusca to the capture of the Cuartel and the making of Francis Hartness Governor of Cuzco. After that I went and put on the imperial robes, which I had now a double right to wear, and led them through the gates of bronze into the Hall of Gold.
He was berth-deck cook of a gunboat, by his own report, and "Jack o' the Dust" in a river monitor up "China way." That's all anybody seems to know about him, and it is suspected that he has his own reasons for keeping a clove hitch on his tongue about himself. There are legends about fortunes which have been made out of bits of news gleaned from conversations before the bar of the Cuartel.
Connelly, said the surgeon at the Cuartel de Meysic, was too ill to be sent thither, unless on a matter of vital importance, and Sandy Ray, hastening from Maidie's bedside in response to a summons, was met by the tidings that a recess had been ordered, and that he would be sent for again when needed.
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