Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-11-10

tllt lltSSlIu ldttiUD3 WHICH WIS Gull
centrated somewhere up on the Pacific
Coast.
"You will get your bayonet," said the
colonel, 'and also your cartridge belt,
and join the command at Bluefields."
Bluefelds was about as far away
from the scene Of disorder as it was
possible for military base to be with
out infringement upon the Caribbean
Sea. But that was the manner of Nj
caraguan fightlng-to get long way
of and shout and make a fuss. Ia
lezzo, who was now but thirteen soils
away from the amount which would
buy the license, was in woe of spirit
He tried to convince the colonel that
he was suffering from an infectious
disease, and that If he were to join
the regiment which meant forty-six
mcn-the command would be deci-
mated. 1t was useless, however.
Jingssez, ZalezZo,s neighbor, had Of
fercd exactly the same excuse but fif-
teen minutes before. The colonel was
immune against such argument. So
Ialezzo had to throw away his lob
once more and go ploughing down to
Blueficlds.
1t was the same old routine-of
walking up and down the long, curl
ing, crooked street of the town be-
tween the Governors "palace" and
the cuartel on the hill overlooking the
lagoon. Halczzo walked. up and down
III an aimlcss and really unguided way
for dozen days, Just as he had done
in dozen previous campaigns. The
white people, who had come to live in
Biucfields for the sake of trading and
getting rich, laughed at him and spoke
of the unlaundried condition of his
shirt. The Jamaica Africans, glory
ing in the fact that they were British
subjects and therefore free from con-
seription by the President, lounged
grnningly past and asked him about
his gun-which he did not carry, guns
being forbidden to soldiers. Zalezzo
walked and walked, and tried to feel
like bare-footed hero in ragged
clothes, but he was not an amateur at
| this thing and could not muster ND
| the Illusion.
On the thirteenth night girl named
| GhoZa came to him as he was loafing
in military way past the hotel-the
| English hotel-and said to him:
do you know Of Kisti?"
mo" said Zalezzo.
"She has married the rubber-fbre
company's clerk-the big young man
who came up the last Yulu."
The measure of time Is not by years
or months or week in that region, but
by steamer trips. ''I'he last Yulu'
meant the last time the Yulu had come
from Greytown.
The girl went away, and Zalezzo
continued to walk his almless, unpan-
ned beat. AS he walked he thought
He remembered the wars, the revolts,
the terms of his service, the frequent
near approach TO the price of the IL
cense-and the loss to him of Kisti.
Now, the ordinary man placed as
was ZaleZzo would have bent most of
his thoughts toward the white clerk
who had come up on the last Yulu, but
with ,Zalezzo 1t was different. lie
iOoRtu bCyObt tit bltiC oupNiiiNidiitg
OF the case and found the bassc rea-
sonng.
Wars" he said, "bloodless but busy
wars, have kept me sixteen times from
getting money enough to get that IL
cense. This white clerk is a mere in
cident. The wars are the thing. Yes,
and who Is back of the wars? You
cannot stab war or shoot a war if
you are injured by war; but you can
90 deeper and see who caused the war,
and make 1t even with him."
lie walked up and down and up and
down in his bare feet, with his bayonet
sticking out almost rectangularly from
his cartridgeless belt.
The moon came up, and 1t shone on
the white ''palace" of the Governor,
with its weedy yard and its dirty,
muddy steps of entry. Zalezzo sat up
on an old, foolish, rusty cannon and
thought of his situation and of the au-
thor of his wrong. He turned at last
and caught the cleaning of the moon
on the window of the Governors room.
1t was but two stories-the white
frame ''palace"-and the window was
plainly within the reach of any man
who could get a good 'boost."
''T'he man who makes war Is In
there" said ZaleZzo. 'What do l care
for the white clerk? Did he make the
war of last year, when l was within
seven soils of the license, or of the year
before, when l had but four to win?
| Not he. I'll do it"
He looked about for a ladder or
something which could be used as
such, but the prudent house guard had
put all such things away at the out
break of the war The only thing
which could be of help was the can
non-ten feet long, and old and rusty.
Zalezzo looked at it. 1t weighed over
two tons dead metal. The spirit of in
Jury within him, however, knew moth
ing of muscles or horsepower.
II was the strangest thing! The
Governor had been stabbed to death as
hn slant aVidautlv hV means OF a pay