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Updated: June 5, 2025
"I heard what was said; you have agreed to turn over this boat in person to General Yozarro." The American nodded. "You will permit me to say, Major, that you have done a foolish thing. When you left the gunboat as you did, I was free to pick up the General and that should have been the end of the affair."
American citizens are not in the habit of surrendering at the demand or whim of any South American nobody." Removing his hat, the Major bowed low and smiled. "Does he speak the truth?" bluntly asked General Yozarro, turning to Bambos. The face of the American flushed at the slur, but he held himself in hand. "He does; he remained at my request," said General Bambos with a nod.
"Blow and be hanged!" called back Major Jack; "if you fire on an American citizen, your nuisance of a republic will be wiped off the earth." "You have a deserter with you; I demand his surrender." Therein shone the cunning of General Yozarro. If an American was fired upon in Atlamalcan waters for carrying off a deserter, it was little satisfaction our citizen would be able to obtain.
In the long hall he met two men in uniform, well advanced in years and stooping in an unmilitary way, whom he recognized as the leading officers and counsellors of President Yozarro. It was manifest that they had been holding a conference. The Major saluted them as he passed down the hall to where a guard stood outside the door, musket in hand.
Some natural surprise was expressed that he should be wandering alone, so far from the Castle, and the listening friends heard General Yozarro suggest that it might be worth while to look farther. They were about to do so when he changed his mind. "Captain Navarro is not careful with his horses: I must remind him to have a better care of my property."
The gunner snapped the lanyard, but a dull click followed and there was no discharge. General Yozarro uttered an oath and Captain Ortega called from the pilot house: "That is the one which was not loaded!" Jack Starland had forgotten the fact in the flurry of the moment. He smiled and looked across at his own boat. Captain Winton did not throw away a second.
"But it is the very one I do not wish to make," protested the annoyed American; "I like General Yozarro, chiefly because he is your relative, but absolutely my feeling can never go beyond that." "I thought your heart had not wandered elsewhere." "It has not, and it can never pass to him, my dear Manuela." "May I not say that you might go farther and fare worse?
He is the only one I know who doesn't fear General Yozarro. They often quarrel, for the Captain is plain of speech to every one. Yozarro has announced that he means to make him admiral of the fleet which he intends to build up. That I suppose is why he has placed him in charge of the gunboat, so that he shall have all the training and experience he can." "How does he feel toward you, Martella?"
"Why then is he not with them? What is his object in going out there and posing in that way?" "I wish I could answer your questions. Perhaps our captain suspects we are dreaming of escape and he has sent out guards to watch the Castle from all sides." "It seems more likely to me that he came from the small boat; he may be a messenger from General Yozarro." "If so, his action is inexplicable.
She comes from the Great Republic of the North, and no one elsewhere has the right to say yea or nay to her." "It distresses me very much, Señorita Estacardo, that special weight was laid by General Yozarro upon the order as affecting la Americana."
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