The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-07-27

The American women sat a. still, - r.
they were at prayer meeting, until the frst
bull was led out. The Spaniards looked
at them and wondered why people who had
come to amuse themselves could. wear such
solemn faces: but, as a rule. Spauiards
don't trouble themselves much about other
peoples affairs. and SO long as the full
night promised to pan out well the sour
faces of the Americans did not disturb
them. But when the women saw that
the fight was about to begin and that q
picador was advancing on the bull with
a handful of darts. they rose up in q
body and shrieked to him to let the poor
beast alone. Both the bull and the man
were good deal astoniShed, but their
astonishment was nothing to that Of the
spectators when the oxS American woman
who could speak Spanish began to address
them. She told them that they were brutes
and towards. and that although they might
think themselves civilized and religious,
they we're the worst set OF barbarians on
the face Of the earth. bespoke for about
fve minutes and still had ia good deal Of
language to get rid of, when the people
judged that the time had come for putting
the Americans out. l was sitting on the
opposite side of the arena, and l couldn't
have helped the women even IL l had been
anxious to help them, which am free to
say l was not. For a few minutes the air
was filed with fragments Of bonnets and
back hair, and then the police came in
and carried the women OF to gaol. with
about as much uproar as a first class reyo-
luton would have made. $50. 49, g..
Il was SO savage at the way In which I
had been treated that resolved to let the
women spend the night in the lookup be-
fore taking measures to have them released
The prison was middling comfortable one.
and l knew that they could come to no
harm by merely occupying it for night.
The next morning l oversight myself. and
1t was towards noon before l went to the
chief OF police, with the intention of get
ting the women set at liberty. The chief
welcomed me with enthusiasm. He threw
both his arms around me and kissed me on
both cheeks, and congratulated me because.
he said, the American women were where
they would never give me any more trou-
BILE.
You're very good 1 said but I'm not
rid of them yet. l can't allow them to stav
in prison; and when they are released
they'll continue to prosecute me lust as
they have been doing
My dear sir!' replied the chief. 'as
you know. l am your most devoted friend.
and it has been terrible grief to me that
could not send these women out of Spain
and to restore tranquility to your bosom.
And l grieve no longer. The moment thew
dared to create riot and attack the ma
tonal custom of bull-fghung, my course
was plain They had proved themselves to
be rogues and vagabonds by engaging in
a ri f
for me to send them across the frontier.
or course. l cannot interfere between you
and the hotelkeeper, or protect you against
the manager of the bull Light. who claims
damages to the amount Of 5000 pesetas.
and l am afraid you will have to pay the
fines which the court inflicted this morn
ing on the women, and which amount to
about 5000 pesetas. Nevertheless. that ia
of little consequence, for l have the great
JOY of assuring you that the women left
here for the French frontier four hours
ago, and there is no possibility of their
coming back again
Il thanked the chief for his kindness.
There was no use in telling him that he
had driven the last nail in my coffin You
see, it was absolutely certain that the
women would complain to the WASHINGTON
government and would represent that they
had been illegally sent out of the country,
and that had refused to give. them any
help There would be a tremendous row
in the American newspapers, and even if it
should prove possible to- settle the affair
without war with Spain, nothing could
save me from being ANONYMOUSLY turned
out of Office. Moreover, even II I should
not be removed, it would be impossible for
me to stay in Aragua, for.1 could not pay
no o1 or hot hoI
against me, and my failure to pay would
be followed eventually by a stab in the
back. - '''
There is only one thing left for me
to do. l went to my lodgings and wrote
a letter of resignation to Washington, ex-
planning that my health had suddenly
given away. Then, as soon as it was dark
1 shaved off my moustache, put a clean
collar and toothbrush in my pocket and
took the express train for Gibraltar, where
I caught the steamer for New York I
kept out of sight in America until uproar
about the base insult to American ladies
and the cowardly conduct of a consul had
died away, and then 1 went to the Sand
witch islands, and went into the sugar
business l never met one of the women
after left Spain, and trust that 1 never
will. AS for the consul at Avilas who
dumped those 80 women on me- I wanted
to meet him the worst way for several
years, but now that the thing has become an
old story I have got lover my rage, and
sometimes 1 find myself coming pretty near
to admiring him for the way in which he
got square with me- That man would have
made first-class anarchist conspirator,
if such had happened to be his path in life,
for. considering what ne did with those 80
women. he would havd accomplished great
things with dynamite ibombs and Internal
machines"