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Updated: June 5, 2025
"General Yozarro and his officers have returned!" called Martella; "the firemen are cramming the furnace with wood; they mean to pursue us!" Jack Starland and his sister looked behind them. The Atlamalcan had spoken the truth. The time seemed much too short for the party to have made the journey to the Castle and back.
This was at the suggestion of the mate, who, not wishing to kill any one, only sought to put the other craft out of action. It was done. The tug was as helpless as a log, but not until Captain Ortega called from the pilot house, making known the nature of the disaster, did General Yozarro understand the mortal injury his navy had received.
Who knows that if your sister is restored to you through the help of General Bambos, you may not have to ask General Yozarro to help you make him give her up?" It was a contingency of which Major Starland had not thought. Prudence told him to be patient till the coming of the Warrenia, with her crew of a dozen men, beside the captain.
"It looks as if they are coming to the Castle; they will soon be here!" "That does not seem likely to me; the only ones whom we expect are General Yozarro and his friends, and so long as he has the larger craft, he will not use such a puny boat as that."
It was a trying moment, for he half expected a shot in the back, even though it would have meant the death of General Yozarro and the destruction of the tugboat. Captain Ortega must have feared something of the kind, for he stepped to the edge of the upper deck, leaned forward with his revolver grasped and kept a keen watch upon every man. It is not impossible that his vigilance averted a tragedy.
The boat was not injured, but he shot Martella's brother, who was the pilot. Martella, therefore, hates him." "No more than I do. Had I known what you have told me when talking with him this forenoon, I should have put a bullet through his carcass." "There are better ways than that; let us go to the home of General Yozarro in the mountains and bring away the Señorita; Martella will go with us."
"It was after my warning to you." "Begging pardon, Señor, it could not well have been before." "What did you hope to accomplish?" "To help General Yozarro to recover his boat." "How?" "I expected him to dash forward and board." "He lacked the courage to attempt it." "I am sorry to agree with you."
"But he was wise; I kept one of the guns continually bearing upon him and would have blown him and his men to kingdom come." Again the Captain puffed his cigarette. He looked dreamily down the river where the sailing craft had passed from sight. "You would not have harmed General Yozarro or anyone in the boat." "You are insulting, Captain; I could not have missed them."
He felt certain that when General Yozarro sent the two thither under escort, he had arranged to prevent their leaving until it should suit his pleasure. It followed, therefore, that despite the outrage, it was necessary for Starland to act with great prudence. He had only two companions and he placed little reliance on the Atlamalcan.
A brief silence followed, and then Major Starland said in an even voice: "I have learned of some of the insults received from General Yozarro, Dictator of the Republic to the west, but I am not clear as to the last outrage: may I be enlightened?"
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