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Updated: June 20, 2025
As they had hoped, the whole detail of forty men were in a special car next to the one containing the arms consigned to Michael O'Halloran, importer of pianos. Lieutenant Chaves, in charge of the detail sent out to see that the rifles reached Governor Megales instead of the men who had paid for them, was finding his assignment exceedingly uninteresting.
Why should you go out and kill these soldiers that haven't injured you?" "I'm not going to kill any of them," he smiled "Besides, that isn't the way I look at it. This fellow Megales is a despot. He has made out to steal the liberty of the people from them. President Diaz can't interfere because the old rascal governor does everything with that smooth, oily way of his under cover of law.
"It is that, me bye. There's the very divil to pay," he whispered. "Cough it out, Mike." "That tyrant Megales is onto our game. Somebody's leaked, or else he has a spy in our councils as we have in his, the ould scoundrel." "I see. Your spy has told you that his spy has reported to him " "That the guns are to be brought in to-night. He has sent out a guard to bring them in safely to him.
He doesn't mix issues. Now, the lad's in love with Carmencita Megales, the prettiest black-eyed lass in Mexico, and, by the same token, so is our friend Chaves, who just gave us the guns a little while ago. But Valdez is a man from the heel of him to the head. Miss Carmencita has her nose in the air because Juan doesn't snuggle up to ould Megales and flatter him the same way young Chaves does.
That young woman swam blushingly toward him and let her face disappear in an embrace. "You see, one can't have everything, Senor Valdez," continued Megales lightly. "For me, I cannot have both Chihuahua and my life; you, it seems, cannot have both your successful revolution and my daughter." "Your excellency, she loves me. Of that I am assured.
It was Valdez that broke triumphantly the moment's silence that followed. "She does. She does. I claim the consent of silence." But victory spoke too prematurely in his voice. Cried the proud Spanish girl passionately: "I hate him!" Megales understood the quality of her hate, and beckoned to his future son-in-law. "I have some arrangements to make for our journey to-night.
"Have you anything to say before I pronounce sentence of death upon you?" "I have," answered Bucky, looking him straight in the eyes. "I am an American, and I demand the rights of a citizen of the United States." "An American?" Incredulously Megales lifted his eyebrows. "You are a Spanish gypsy, my friend." The ranger was fairly caught in his own trap.
You will give Colonel Onate my compliments and ask him to make as much haste as is convenient." Megales signed and sealed the note he was writing and handed it to O'Halloran, who in turn passed it to Rodrigo. "Colonel Onate should be here in fifteen minutes at the farthest. May I in the meantime offer you a glass of wine, Dictator O'Halloran?"
He was to bring his little partner with him, and O'Halloran was to take them to a place where they might lie in hiding till the time set for the rising. "I would go with ye, but I want to take charge of the unloading. Don't lose any time, lad, for as soon as Megales learns of what has happened his fellows will scour the town for every mother's son of us.
Chaves choked with rage, but the rest of the command yielded to the situation very tranquilly, with no desire to offer themselves as targets to this crackling explosion of Colts. Muy bien! After all, Valdez was a better man to serve than the fox Megales. Swiftly Valdez and the wagon driver passed down the car and gathered the weapons from the seats of the troopers.
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