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"Then you consent, your excellency?" cried Valdez joyously. "I neither consent nor refuse. You must go to a more final authority than mine for an answer, young man." "But you are willing she should follow where her heart leads?" "But certainly." "Then she is mine," cried Valdez. "I am not," replied the girl indignantly over her shoulder. Megales turned her till her unconsenting eyes met his.
His friends were hidden away in holes and cellars, while Megales dominated the situation with his troops. To expect a reversal of the situation was surely madness. Yet even while the thought was in his mind he caught a glimpse in a doorway of a man he recognized.
He glanced quickly at O'Halloran as he entered, as if asking for guidance, and then as questioningly at Megales. Had the Irishman played Judas and betrayed them all? Or was the coup already played with success? "Colonel Onate, I have sent for you at the request of Governor Megales to set his mind at rest on a disturbing point.
O'Halloran choked a laugh, for by chance the governor had hit the nail on the head. Onate was to be Secretary of State under Valdez, and this was the bait that had been dangled temptingly under his nose to induce a desertion of Megales. "If you mean to reflect upon my honor I can assure you that my conscience is clear," answered Onate blackly. "Indeed, colonel, I do not doubt it.
Megales stepped to the wall, spanned with his fingers a space from the floor above a joint in the masonry, and pressed against the concrete. Inch by inch the wall fell back and opened into a lower corridor of the prison, the very one indeed which led to the cell in which Bucky and his love were imprisoned.
"I'm afraid he will not be able to give the countersign to Garcia. In the meantime, excellency, pending his return, I would suggest that you notify Colonel Gabilonda to turn over the prison to us without resistance." "You hear your new dictator, colonel," said Megales. "Pardon me, your excellency, but a written order " "Would relieve you of responsibility. So it would. I write once more."
"This must be close to the prison. We have been coming in that direction all the time. It is strange that it could be so near and I not know of it," said the warden, looking around curiously. Megales smiled. "I am the only person alive that knew of the existence of this room or of the secret passage until half an hour ago. I had it built a few years since by Yaquis when I was warden of the prison.
He had been dreading something, and the dread was lifted. Onate! Onate! The ranger's memory searched the past few days to locate the name. Had O'Halloran mentioned it? Was this man one of the officers expected to join the opposition when it declared itself against Megales? He had a vague recollection of the name, and he could have heard it only through his friend.
"If you will kindly write notes, I will send a messenger to General Carlo and another to Colonel Gabilonda requesting their attendance. I think affairs may be quickly arranged." "You are irresistible, senor. I hasten to obey." Megales sat down and wrote two notes, which he turned over to O'Halloran. The latter read them, saw them officially sealed, and dispatched them to their destinations.
It was Megales who spoke. "I'll tell you nothing, except that I'm Bucky O'Connor, of the Arizona Rangers. Chew on that a while, governor, and see how it tastes.
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