The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-02-18

and such like things, I came to the
point. 1 told him that Queen Victoris
had asked the president to consult bel
on an affair of tremendous importance
but it was absolutely necessary that
no one should know anything about
i the matter except that Don Villar y
Villar had left Zarguela for parts un
| known.
Now continued 1, according to
your constitution the president cannot
leave the country for single day un
less he is regularly and constitutionally
turned out by revolution. In these
circumstances the president wants you
to rebel and drive him out of the
country next Monday night. He ex
poets you to hold on to the presidency
for, say, six months, when he will re-
turn and head revolution that will
put him back in Office again. It stands
to reason that he can't speak of this
matter to you directly, so he has ask
ed me to arrange it with you. He said
to me as l left the palace last night:
Captain Intimidad is the only man
in Zarguela who loves me enough to
do me this little favor. Tell him that
there must be no unnecessary blood
shed and that if he will send his bill
for the expenses of the revolution 10
me l will pay it at once.'
The young captain was at first all
knocked IN heap by what I said to
him, but little by little he got to un-
derstand that the president was really
anxious for revolution and conse
quentIy Intimidad agreed to do what
ever his beloved president might de
sire.
| told him that the president had
left all the details of the revolution to
me, and that should rely on the de-
yotion of the brave Capt. Intimibad
to carry out my instructions. You see
had already agreed to help the pres
dent steal the treasury, but l drew the
line at stesling, but dcdn't propose
that anybody should be killed in any
revolution of which l had the manage
ment.
spent the rest of the day thinking
out plan of action and in making the
necessary preparations for war 1 had
fifty sitles brought secretly to the pa
lace, and 1 planted them at the second
story windows as if they were so many
cannon, though I took good care tina,
they should not be visible from the
outside of the palace.
When these were loaded and in
their places, l connected them with an
electric battery that had been given
to the president by a Yankee who
wanted the job of lighting the palace
by electricity, but didn't get it.
My idea was that when Capt, Init
midad should attack the palace, tn.
fifty rifles could be fired by electricity
and the consequent noise would con
vince all the inhabitants Of the towI
that tremendous fight was in pro
gress.
Intimidad agreed te attack the from
door of the palace with thirty men a
precisely o'clock in the morni ng. Hi:
men were to be provided with dothine
but blank cartridges, and they were tt
fire away until tine front door could b.
| broken down, after which they wer,
to rush into the palace and find tha
the president had fed.
Intimidad said that he could rel,
perfectly on his thirty men to ODE,
his orders, and that they were igno
rant Indians, who would never sus
pect that the storming of the palac,
was pnt-up job.
had arranged that the presiden
was to leave the palace soon afte
dusk on the night of the revolution
accompanied by single trusty ser
want to carry the treasury, and l cal
culated that he wonld be well on hi
way to the coast before the revolution
could break out.
The thing that gave me the mos
trouble was to provide for the prope
firing of the rifles in the second stor
windows of the palace I couldn't fir
them myself, for it would have been
breach OF diplomatic etiquette for
foreign minister to take part openl
in revolution.
| I puzzled over this problem till m,
head ached, and finally l went to CAP
Intimidad and told him the difficult
l was in. He solved it by telling m
! that he would send his particuia
friend, Lieut.. Partagas, to do the
ring from the palace windows, and as
sured me that Partagas was ma
who could implicitly be trusted.
| / did not particularly like the pla1
but asI could not suggest anythin
better l agreed to it. hoping that Pal
tagas would have sense enough not {
| shoot any of the attacking force i
! earnest
4 There was one thing more to
settled. Intimidad insisted that tw
men must be killed in the attack, an
that their corpses must be left lyiD